We lost.

We lost by a statistically significant amount. I don’t know how many swing votes there were, people who hadn’t already decided beforehand one way or another, but there were enough. The count stayed at 52%-48% for most of the night, never getting closer.

I believe.

I believe that on November 4th, 2008, California and several other states in the USA voted for discrimination. Not the greatest case of discrimination in history, and not the most limiting, but discrimination nonetheless. Two people who love each other cannot get married, may not be able to share health insurance or even…

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Only marriages of couples sharing the same ethnicity are valid and recognized in California.

Now, I fully recognize that a man and woman of different ethnicities can share a deep and meaningful relationship. But this is an issue of family values.

If we allow interracial marriages in California, we are overturning the beliefs that a majority of residents have shared in recent years. These residents, people like you and me, will be forced to face mandatory compliance with and acceptance of interracial marriage regardless of personal beliefs. Whether they believe it is right or wrong.

The issue is not as…

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People who know me pretty well know I’m not really political. I have a personal moral code, I like philosophy, and I was fascinated by Empire, but I’m not really political. (In some ways when it comes to politics, and a few other things, I get this sort of disinterested, “ha ha, let’s watch the foolish humans” attitude, a la xkcd #164. Other times it just makes me sad.)

But this fall, there’s a rather infamous proposition on the ballet to prevent homosexual marriage. And while I’m not gay, several of my friends are. (And as I’ve said…

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