My joy over an Obama victory has been somewhat tempered by the passing of Prop 8 in California, which wrote a banning of gay marriage into the state constitution.
How sadly ironic it is that it was primarily black homophobia, hand-in-hand in tandem with Morman funding of the proposition, which wrote discrimination into the state constitution. 70 percent of African-Americans voted for the proposition, the only group of people that voted in favor of the measure - white people, Latinos, old, young, men, and women all were evenly split or a little on the no side. This historic election, with an increased black turnout, brought with it increased discrimination in California.
They're on the wrong side of history, and that's nice to know. But it's still sad.
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Your feelings on this are very legit. As a straight latino I just don't get the discrimination against gays from the latino community. We should know how it feels to be treated second class. Yeah this hurts but let's face it, the issue is now bigger. By the way I read your post on Obama and the Wire and must say that it does make me like him even more, if that's possible.
I was pretty taken aback this semester student teaching. The teens are so homophobic. I understand the fear every young man has that he'll be wrongly accused and I know that they dog on each other with gay jokes, but it goes way deeper than that. I did a unit on social injustice and how prejudice causes it. One black boy asked me "isn't it a sin to be gay? Aren't they, like, going to hell?" Oh man.
At the risk of being falsely accused of homophobia myself (we worry now that my beloved niece, who is in FL, has to now consider what might happen if her partner passes away and her daughter's grandparents make a play for custody), I'll toss in my few coppers. I had a strange thought when I heard about this phenomenon you speak of that brings a darkish lining to the bright cloud of his election. I wondered if prop 8 and similar referenda were a case of Karma snapping back on the most zealous gay rights activists who gave the republicans a wedge issue 8 or 4 years ago by insisting (against the advice and pleadings of some of their own leaders like Mr. Frank) on almost militantly pushing the "marriage" issue in such a close election year.
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