Congratulations California!

We have now joined the ranks of bigoted states like Idaho, Georgia, Mississippi, and Colorado in turning our legal powers into discrimination.  A Yes on 8 campaign ad says this:

"Four judges ignored 4 million voters and imposed same-sex marriage on California."

This might be time to have a little civics lesson.  Everyone paying attention?  Ok, the United States of America is a republic not a democracy.  The reason the forefathers chose this method is because they wanted to protect freedom from the "uninformed masses".  They wanted to prevent a government where a simple majority can vote rights away from a minority.  The stop gap for this is the judicial system.  These four judges are not empowered to do the will of the people.  Their duty is to interpret the constitution.  That constitution is supposed to reflect our core values of equality, protection, liberty, and the freedom to pursue happiness.

What a majority of California voters did last night was vote to change the very constitution itself to take rights away from a minority in our state.  Exactly what the forefathers sought to prevent.  I'm embarrassed to be a Californian and I'm disgusted that my fellow citizens would vote me, a lifelong, tax-paying, law-abiding CA resident, to second class status simply because I'm unable to love a woman the way I love a man.

What's most ironic to me is that, according to exit polls, 69 percent of blacks voted for Prop 8.  Let me repeat that...  69 percent of blacks voted against extending to gay people the civil rights once denied to them.  If you're black and you're gay, you have a lot of work to do in your community to end this hypocritical bigotry in your community.

Myself and many gays were proud to have voted for a black man for president.  I wish we could have gotten the same respect back from the black community.  I'm not in a position to marry right now, but it was made clear that I'm less than a human being in the eyes of a majority of Californians.  Look for me to begin more overtly being gay in my little conservative community.  It's not serving anyone to let the bigoted, polygamy-loving Mormon church set the standard for what marriage is or what it means to be gay.