Some interesting thoughts for pondering from a radio piece I am listening to:

Gavin Newsom (current Mayor of San Francisco): “If you did a Prop 8 in 1967 for interracial marriage, would that have been right?”
Newsom questioned whether issues like same-sex marriage or interracial marriage should be put to a popular vote. He said that when the US Supreme Court struck down miscegenation laws 40 years ago, 77% of Americans still objected to Blacks and Whites marrying. “I don’t think in the history of the Civil Rights Movement that many rights have been advanced by majority rule. Do any of us look back and say that interracial marriage should still be illegal on the day after Barack Obama has been elected President of the United States?”
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Polls say that 70% of African Americans who voted in California voted for Prop 8 – the same demographic that turned out in record numbers to vote for Barack Obama was also key in the success of Prop 8, according to Frank Schubert, the head of the “Yes on 8” campaign.
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Next week, in many pulpits around the state, there will be many sermons about how traditional marriage and religious freedoms have been protected. And on the other side, there will be protests and candlelight vigils to decry the hate and discrimination of Prop 8. Both will use language of the oppressed to express themselves. The question is - will anyone be listening?

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