America, you just took a step forward towards a direction a lot of us have been waiting 8 years for.
California, you just took a step backwards. I’m ashamed that my state is the first in the nation to strip a group of people of a right by constitutional amendment.
All the arguments, for and against, have been said to death, so there isn’t any point in me refuting or repeating any of them. One day though, kids will learn about things like Prop 8, and they’ll wonder the way we wondered why things like Jim Crow laws ever existed. They’ll think about how impossible it would be for same-sex marriage bans to exist in their time, much like we think it’d be impossible to enact the Chinese Exclusion Act in ours. They’ll wonder what the fuck we were thinking when Americans were stripped of their rights, much like we wonder what the fuck they were thinking when Japanese Americans were stripped of theirs. They won’t understand why our generation thought two men or two women marrying was so offensive, much like we don’t understand why a black woman and a white man marrying is so offensive.
Tonight, for once in my voting life I’m proud to be American. But to my California, you fucked this one up.
