Not, mind you, that I’m trying to be nitpicky. I’m pissed off about Proposition 8 as well, and think that the exit polling demographics are interesting enough to warrant further analysis. Although social justice movements are generally incited by radical goals, they often become increasingly liberal with the passage of time.

Currently, the mainstream LGBT movement is focused primarily on gay marriage and the right to serve in the military. Frankly, those issues aren’t all that high on my list of priorities. I believe the gay community would benefit from redirecting the attention placed on those topics toward trans-inclusion or domestic violence in queer communities.

Nevertheless, gay marriage would be a nice symbolicstep toward equal rights. I know that there are tangible benefits to state-sponsored marriage as well; however, in my opinion, promoting the radical notion that gays are people should be the most imperative reason to legalize marriage for everyone.

Perhaps I’m asking for too much. Liberal activism is a lengthy process with dubious results. Women fought for eighty years to gain suffrage. The ERA still hasn’t been ratified by enough people to pass it. If women don’t have equal rights under the law, keeping my fingers crossed for gay marriage amounts to unalloyed wishful thinking.

Fuck, California. Seriously. What’s wrong with you?

A part of me feels bad for even feeling angry about this. I mean, marriage isn’t exactly a radical institution, I shouldn’t care, etc., etc. But all that aside, this says that most of the voters in California think my relationship isn’t valuable or real, my sexuality isn’t valuable or real, and that we ought to step back into the closet like good little homos. And the fact that people are celebrating that makes me want to vomit. (Radically.)

Asians opposed it 53-47?

There may be a dynamic worth exploring here.

Could be that Asian voters are more likely to be young and less likely to be Christian (particularly evangelical).

Or that could be an ass-pull.

It is not too much to ask to be treated like an human being, it is not too much to ask to not have someone else’s beliefs made into law. I’m done waiting and I’m done being nice and friendly and polite about getting my rights. It obviously doesn’t work.

Guh, I’m just overwhelmingly angry. This makes my first time voting so incredibly bittersweet.

Age was most definately a major factor. But, in sheer numbers, it was white evangelicals that pushed this over, not Democratic blacks.

And, um, yes she was: http://www.wsoctv.com/politics/17868553/detail.html#-

Having said that, the most likely demographic, by FAR, to vote to ban gay marriage in California was African American democrats. They are also the most reliably democratic voters.

In a two party country, both parties are made up of uneasy coalitions.

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FYI: Elizabeth Dole was not defeated in South Carolina.

There may be a dynamic worth exploring here.

Religion definitely has to answer for this bigotry.