I'm pretty unhappy about 8 too (I live in California), but that's what democracy is all about: a tyrannical majority oppressing a despised minority.
These bigoted marriage laws were always going to take a US Supreme Court decision to finally get rid of, the same way it took a Supreme Court decision to put a
stop to laws against interracial marriage.
I wasn't aware until after the election that the Mormon Church was such a big backer of the proposition. The irony, given the Mormon's historical
belief that a marriage is between a man and a woman--or two women, or three women, etc.--is pretty thick. Unfortunately America has a strong tradition, going
back to the Puritans, of persecuted minorities turning around and persecuting others for the same sort of thing they themselves were persecuted over.
Personally, I hope that when this finally makes it to the Supreme Court, the decision is to over turn _all_ government laws restricting who can be married, how
many people they can be married to, and what the sex of those people might be.
These bigoted marriage laws were always going to take a US Supreme Court decision to finally get rid of, the same way it took a Supreme Court decision to put a
stop to laws against interracial marriage.
I wasn't aware until after the election that the Mormon Church was such a big backer of the proposition. The irony, given the Mormon's historical
belief that a marriage is between a man and a woman--or two women, or three women, etc.--is pretty thick. Unfortunately America has a strong tradition, going
back to the Puritans, of persecuted minorities turning around and persecuting others for the same sort of thing they themselves were persecuted over.
Personally, I hope that when this finally makes it to the Supreme Court, the decision is to over turn _all_ government laws restricting who can be married, how
many people they can be married to, and what the sex of those people might be.