Ever since the results of the vote on Proposition 8 came out, I have been trying to come up with a post about how it makes me feel. I would write it up, and then decide not to post the results because I find it so full of pain and anger that it is just ranting. That would serve no purpose.

It is probably obvious that I think the results were just wrong. It seems totally unAmerican to use democracy to approve discrimination. That is basically what was done in California and other states before it. We let the religious beliefs of some Christians become the law of the land ... one in which we supposedly espouse the idea of religious freedom.

But I am going to leave that argument where it is. In all honesty, I would be either preaching to the choir or trying to sway those that think I am horribly evil for being the person I was born to be. What I want to focus on is the response of the GLBTQQ community.

In a way, a part of me wonders if this event is going to be the equivalent of Rosa Parks on the bus. It is not like we have been accepting of the way we have been treated over the years. I am not sure if it is because California was always seen as a bastian of liberalism, and the resulting vote of Proposition 8 seems more like a betrayal or what. I just hear more folks saying how they just can't take being treated as second class citizens anymore.

More people want to get involved in the fight for equality. More people are asking why we pay taxes when discrimination against us is encoded on the national level and in a large majority of the states. It is inspiring to see. It gives me hope. I had it before, but I am surprised that such a negative result could leave me feeling even more. Sometimes it is the most terrible things that make people stand up and fight for what is right.