Gay Marriage Ban Succeeding in California

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I’m really unhappy that my home state looks like it will pass a gay marriage ban next month. (California’s Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, is ahead in the polls.) This serves as a reminder that no matter how badly Barack Obama beats John McCain and no matter how many Senate seats the Democrats pick up, this is not a fundamentally progressive country. This is a country fed up with Republicans. I mean for christ’s sake, this is California, the one place you would think voters would embrace gay marriage!

The success of Prop 8 supports a theory I have and that I’m sure many share: electing a black man named Barack Hussein Obama was only possible because of just how screwed we are as a country. Let’s keep in mind, during the post-election pats on the back we’re all going award ourselves because we elected the nation’s first black president, that in a test of our tolerance conducted in a vacuum, one of our most progressive states failed.

(Maybe I’m getting ahead of myself. Maybe I’m overly-pessimistic. Whatever. I’m in a bad mood about this.)

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