But also

Despite all of my optimism and elation about the presidential election and what that means for our country, I'm also mired in despair: California voters passed proposition 8 amending their constitution to ban gay marriage.

Arizona, Arkansas, and Florida also passed gay marriage bans, but when a state that already won't let me get married says, essentially, "and we mean it!", well, I just want to give them the finger.

But California is different. In California, it was legal for a brief, shining moment. And thousands -- tens of thousands -- of people who were married just yesterday woke up today not-married -- becauase bigots decided we can't play their reindeer games.

If you're married, if you're legally married, can you imagine what that must be like?

Today my heart is full and broken, both at the same time.

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[dale]

I'm sorry. But time will turn this one. Gay rights is where Black rights were forty years ago. We've come an incredible distance in one generation. I grew up in a world in which homosexuality was -- quite literally -- unspeakable. You could not refer to it in public. Period.

Younger people get it. It'll take ten, twenty years, maybe. But we'll get there.

xoxo

[frog]

Amen.