On August 4, 2010, in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, Judge Vaughn Walker overturned California’s Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage that had passed two years earlier by the state’s voters.
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The California results of the election of November of 2008 were really ugly, in that a majority voted for Barack Hussein Obama and another majority voted for Proposition 8.
I’m not here going to wrestle with the question of whether Obama were worse than John Sidney McCain III, nor will I make the mistake of thinking that the two aforementioned majorities were conterminous.
But a significant share of those who voted for Obama must also have voted for Proposition 8. And that basically means that they ignored Obama’s being the spokesmodel for the political left (which was plainly slouching towards endorsement of same-sex marriage), and simply voted for him based upon his race.
I lived in a neighborhood whose population was disproportionately homosexual, and my regular hang-out was far more so. The folk there were stunned and disheartened.
Unfortunately, the official campaign against Proposition 8 had been run by people who were not at all focussed on making the case for allowing same-sex marriage; their concern was to line their own pockets.