Well. We have a new President Elect. I am thrilled for America, and hope that we can come together and be supportive of him, regardless of how we voted. I am not thrilled, however, with the people in California and Arizona. Proposition 102 in Arizona and Proposition 8 in California were both banning same-sex marriage. Arizona’s law passed, and California’s race is still too close to call (as of this writing) but is leaning toward passing as well. I’m saddened and disgusted at this result. I won’t go into a rant on why, since I’ve basically done that already. My excitement for Obama’s election is largely outweighed by my disappointment in the possibility (at this point) of Proposition 8 passing.
I AM happy, however, that the television commercials will go back to products I don’t use, rather than lies and slander about candidates and issues (including issues I support. I’m not just talking about the other guys). The last few weeks have been awful, in regard to the heavy ads running on every television station. I’ll be happy to get back to mindless but amusing beer and Arby’s commercials. I’m just that classy.
On a final note, as happy as I am that America has elected their first African-American president, I will be so much more pleased when we can just say that we elected an articulate and intelligent person for president. I cannot wait for the day when race doesn’t matter. When gender doesn’t matter. It’s amazing and awesome to me that even a few years ago, the possibility of having an African-American president was outrageous, but here we are 76 days from swearing him into office. Now that we’ve passed this milestone, I hope we can start just referring to him as a man. Intelligence matters. Ethics matter. Personality matters. To me, color shouldn’t matter.
If it makes you feel any better, Prop 8 will never come to fruition. Several groups have already filed injunctions to block it, and if those don’t work, it’ll be struck down as unconstitutional just like sodomy laws have been over the past few years.
All the money that the Knights Of Columbus wasted could have been spent to, uhh, like help people n stuff, like their religion tells them to do. I think that’s the most repugnant part of all to me. Spend millions of dollars on something that is not a legal possibility in this day and age when there are so many worthwhile things they could have put it towards.