What's so sad about the adoption thing is that it really just hurts the kids. There are a lot of loving unmarried couples or potential parents who would be great caretakers. Marriage really is an arbitrary deciding factor in this day and age.
No on 8 drew some comparisons to the civil rights movement, which I think is fair game considering the fact that Yes on 8 was appeared to be targeting some of their ads to minorities, trying to bank on the idea that ethnic minorities tend to have strong feelings about "traditional marriage" (which seems to have worked to their advantage after all).
In one of my classes, we had a discussion (pretty much just a bunch of college students agreeing that Prop 8 is ridiculous) after the election, and one black student remarked that even though his parents didn't really approve of homosexuality, they saw the blatant parallel between this battle and the civil rights movement, and could not in good conscience vote to remove the rights of other people. If only more people could see it that way. Sigh.
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Date: 2008-11-10 04:13 am (UTC)No on 8 drew some comparisons to the civil rights movement, which I think is fair game considering the fact that Yes on 8 was appeared to be targeting some of their ads to minorities, trying to bank on the idea that ethnic minorities tend to have strong feelings about "traditional marriage" (which seems to have worked to their advantage after all).
In one of my classes, we had a discussion (pretty much just a bunch of college students agreeing that Prop 8 is ridiculous) after the election, and one black student remarked that even though his parents didn't really approve of homosexuality, they saw the blatant parallel between this battle and the civil rights movement, and could not in good conscience vote to remove the rights of other people.
If only more people could see it that way. Sigh.