how bittersweet this transition to a new era is for me. i'm excited to see what will come for america in the future. and i loved being able to dance in the streets about it with perfect strangers. (who incidentally, cleaned up after themselves...my faith in human nature is increasing). i know many people are not dancing. and i know that this change will tear as many people asunder as those who are uniting with the hope of change for our time, our now. that is a truth that we cannot ignore, and a truth i am sure that those people won't allow us to ignore.
there are hardly any words to describe the outrage and disgust i feel in regards to what my home state just did. i cannot believe the nightmare of utter regression that people have chosen.
particularly, i am furious about the fact that my own parents believe that the passage of prop 8 is good news. although we are at an impasse, at least my father had the decency to respect my opinion. as for my mother, i have nothing more to say. not because i actually have nothing more to say, but because i don't want to say anything more in vain, waste any more words on something so asinine. often times, i have let things slide in order to prevent unnecessary conflict. but this time, i will not yield here, not in the face of this intolerance, this ignorance. this doesn't mean to say that i will provoke rash conflict. but if it comes up again, i will not back down. equality will come, it must. if not today, then someday.
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this is why i encourage everybody to vote. if it's something to believe in, then why not? i hope that at next year's election, the approval of gay marriage will be presented as a new proposition, and that more people will vote in favor of it. i'm still shocked that prop 8 passed, because of all places that i thought would allow it, california would be it. it just goes to show how much further our country still has to go. hopefully within out lifetime, things will change.
i am sitting in our bathroom typing this, so that i won't wake you up (i was also on the phone). if none of this makes sense (i'm sure it will), it's because i'm tired, and i need to go to bed. we can discuss this.
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i just so shocked that prop 8 passed. seriously.
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