Comments on: My Thoughts Before the Proposition 8 Vote http://avromandina.net/avrom/2008/11/my-thoughts-before-the-proposition-8-vote/ Analytic Philosophy for Fun (not Profit) Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:16:59 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Avrom http://avromandina.net/avrom/2008/11/my-thoughts-before-the-proposition-8-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Avrom Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:20:25 +0000 http://avromandina.net/avrom/?p=7#comment-2 The above is an essay I wrote on my professional blog the day before the election. I've never posted personal stuff in my professional blog, but the internal pressure I felt from this story was simply too great for me not to put it out there. I think that that was the event that really tipped me over the edge in terms of starting a new blog with no pre-determined topic. I took it down the day after the election, because it really was wildly off-topic for that blog, but I'm putting it back up here, even though, of course, time has moved on. So, what's happened since then (other, of course, than the history-making news that Barak Obama will be the 43rd President of the U.S.)? Proposition 8 passed, and the California Constitution now defines marriage as between a man and a woman. The state Attorney General has assured us that existing marriages won't be annulled, so I'm probably spared that conversation with Nilakash, at least for a bit. A lesbian couple in L.A. (friends of my parents, actually) and the City of San Francisco are asking the California Supreme Court to overturn the amendment on procedural grounds (an interesting argument, but a topic for another post). Fingerpointing among my fellow opponents of Proposition 8 has broken out--was it poor anti-8 campaign leadership that allowed this to happen? the African-American community? white gays and lesbians who were too out-of-touch with the African-American community? the Mormon church? I do want to apologize to the people who commented on the post when it was on the other site; I couldn't figure out how to gracefully migrate those comments over. Some were supportive, some were not, but they all involved effort and I'm sorry that they're lost here. The above is an essay I wrote on my professional blog the day before the election. I’ve never posted personal stuff in my professional blog, but the internal pressure I felt from this story was simply too great for me not to put it out there. I think that that was the event that really tipped me over the edge in terms of starting a new blog with no pre-determined topic. I took it down the day after the election, because it really was wildly off-topic for that blog, but I’m putting it back up here, even though, of course, time has moved on.

So, what’s happened since then (other, of course, than the history-making news that Barak Obama will be the 43rd President of the U.S.)? Proposition 8 passed, and the California Constitution now defines marriage as between a man and a woman. The state Attorney General has assured us that existing marriages won’t be annulled, so I’m probably spared that conversation with Nilakash, at least for a bit. A lesbian couple in L.A. (friends of my parents, actually) and the City of San Francisco are asking the California Supreme Court to overturn the amendment on procedural grounds (an interesting argument, but a topic for another post). Fingerpointing among my fellow opponents of Proposition 8 has broken out–was it poor anti-8 campaign leadership that allowed this to happen? the African-American community? white gays and lesbians who were too out-of-touch with the African-American community? the Mormon church?

I do want to apologize to the people who commented on the post when it was on the other site; I couldn’t figure out how to gracefully migrate those comments over. Some were supportive, some were not, but they all involved effort and I’m sorry that they’re lost here.

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