Pink is the New Black
Posted on November 5, 2008
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Americans have busted through the racial barrier and have elected the first African American President of the United States, but in California and in most parts of the U.S.A, Americans continue to be homophobic!
According to the NYT, California voters have adopted a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, joining voters in two other states who went to the polls Tuesday to overturn such unions. The other two states being Florida and Arizona — but its success in California, a trend-setter in so many arenas, was seen as major defeat for gay rights activists. The measure came only months after California’s highest court ruled it constitutional, spurring thousands of gay couples to marry there. Ironically, exit polls in California found that 70 percent of black voters — and 74 percent of black women — voted for the ban.
“We pick ourselves up and trudge on,” said Kate Kendall, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. “There has been enormous movement in favor of full equality in eight short years. That is the direction this is heading, and if it’s not today or it’s not tomorrow, it will be soon.”
“This city is no longer marrying people of the same sex”, Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, announced at a grim news conference at City Hall, where hundreds of same-sex couples had rushed to get married in the days and hours leading up to Tuesday’s vote.
Results in Arkansas show voters supporting a proposal to ban unmarried couples from adopting or acting as foster parents, which critics said was unfairly aimed at gay men and lesbians.
One step forward, three steps backwards.
