I skuggan av lyckan av att Barack Obama blir USA´s näste president, händer underliga saker i California USA. Man har fått känslan av att människor där blivit lite mer fritänkande, men icke. Vem styr egentligen Californien?I Twitter och Demonbaby, under rubriken "Mormons stole our rights":
"What happened?
On May 16, 2008, the California Supreme Court affirmed that the state constitution, AS IT WAS WRITTEN BY THE FOUNDERS OF THIS STATE MORE THAN 150 YEARS PRIOR, provided official government recognition of all marriages between all couples, regardless of gender.
On November 4, 2008, Proposition 8 amended this constitution to explicitly deny this right to same-sex couples. Nowhere else in either California's constitution or the Federal Constitution are a specific class of rights restricted, to any minority group, for any reason."
Ur LA Times :
"Gays, blacks devided on Proposition 8For many African Americans, it´s not a civil right issue.
By Cara Mia DiMassa and Jessica Garrison
November 8, 2008
For Trebor Healey, a 46-year-old gay man from Glendora, Tuesday's election was bittersweet.
He was thrilled that the nation elected its first African American president. But he was disappointed that black voters, traditionally among the most reliably liberal in the state, voted overwhelmingly to ban same-sex marriage.
He understands that there are differences between the civil rights battles of blacks and gays: For one thing, he notes, gay people have a much easier time blending in. Still, he says, he thinks it's sad that "people do not equate one civil rights struggle with another."
Many black voters didn't see it that way.
"I was born black. I can't change that," said Culver City resident Bilson Davis, 57, who voted for Proposition 8. "They weren't born gay; they chose it," he added, reflecting a commonly held belief that many researchers dispute. "
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gayblack8-2008nov08,0,1601616.story
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