Requisite mention of politics...

[fajrdrako]

To all my American friends: congratulations.

A happy outcome.

Comments

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Still stunned here, and very pleased with my state of Colorado right now. When I moved here 1992, Amendment 2, the anti-gay amendment, had just been passed and liberals were boycotting Colorado. (It was subsequently overturned by the SCOTUS.) I was telling all my friends, "don't boycott Colorado, move here and vote!"

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

"don't boycott Colorado, move here and vote!"

Yeah, that's the ticket!

I am always amused, confused, confounded and appalled that people think it's a good idea to deny others rights they have themselves. How does it harm a het person if a gay person can get married? And if marriage is a Good Thing, why not encourage everyone to do it?

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

There is no reason behind it. It's pure hate, or prejudice. Just as people will vote against embryonic stem cell research because they consider it abortion (without in any way actually reading the wording of the proposal), or how people in MI came out and voted for a ban against benefits in civil unions because they were anti-gays, not realizing the ban applied also to hetero couples in such unions.

They simply aren't thinking. It makes no sense otherwise why they'd care.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Sigh. No, it makes little sense, and we'll just have to go on trying to sway people's minds. I think there's been a lot of social progress over the last century - a black man in the White House is an example of it - but we've a way to go. Except that things do get better. With.... some backsliding. No good to be complacent.

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

I still believe I will see gay marriage legalized for good in my lifetime. :) I will do my part to help it along.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It happened here in my lifetime, I see no reason it shouldn't in yours. It isn't so... outrageous, really. I predict less that ten years.

Of course, it should have happened already.