I would be remiss, after my celebratory last post, if I didn't mention what we as progressives failed to do.

Gay marriage bans passed this election in Arizona and California (although the final results aren't in at this time for California...yet). A ban on gay couples adopting children in Arkansas passed.

These bans are wrong; California's goes so far as to strip people of rights they already had.

I want to shake the supporters of California's Prop 8. How can you be so happy about taking somebody's rights away? How sick, sad and insecure are you?

This morning I was so proud of my country, so proud of my generation. Now I'm still proud, because we gained a lot of ground. A lot. We defeated all the anti-choice ballot measures. We elected the first Black president, the first democrat in 8 years, hopefully shifting us back in the direction of a country that takes care of its most vunerable.

But we failed an entire population of people. So this is when the work begins. If we want to work for justice, we must not rest. We can celebrate, but we cannot rest.

Our work is not done. The passage of these bans should remind us all of that.

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November 6, 2008 10:27 AM

[0+]  Rachel_in_WY said:

I went to grad school in CA and I still have a lot of friends there. Some of them were involved in the campaign against prop 8, and they said that the majority of the groups campaigning for it were out-of-state religious groups. Pretty infuriating.

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