Not cool, California!

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12451435?source=most_viewed
Can't think of anything else to say right now.

My friends and I took to calling Cali "the Fail State" back when prop 8 first got passed.

Oh, I am so angry, but too tired to be enraged.

RainbowSprinkles wrote:My friends and I took to calling Cali "the Fail State" back when prop 8 first got passed.

Yeah. I sat in the student life center of Mt. SAC with my friends, and we tried to make the most of it the day that prop 8 passed. Looking at it optimistically, we got a Shiny new president and a Train from the future.

the gay marriage thing (bill? proposal?) was vetoed after passing in state senate and loosing by like 2 votes in the house.
but the cali thing is totally wtf.
welll, give it time, im sure nearly everywhere will be thinking about it soon enough

Still, you're lucky in America that they discuss it. Here (in Poland) is much worse - the society is very homophobic, even people who considered themselves open-minded...
So I don't think they will even considered voting it in the near future... or even further one.
It is sad to say but gay people have absolutely no rights here.

I love Canada... nuff said.

California is the Fail State because while Cali refuses to let gay marriage happen... IOWA has allowed same-sex marriage. I mean c'mon California... IOWA!

I voted no. >< It's messed... >> My whole family except my mom voted yes, made me so angry. I almost changed my dad's mind and he's EXTREMELY homophobic. I remember one time when I told him I was going somewhere and he asked why. I said "I'm fighting for gay rights." He glared at me and said "What about natures rights?"

I also remember a time in 9th grade when we were reading Romeo and Juliet and we had to fill out a paper that said what you were looking for in a partner and what your parents were. He wrote "MALE" in large letters across his side of the page. >> Thanks.

Sorry 'bout that, back to the topic. I wouldn't call California the Fail state, at least Cali has had the rights and the supreme courts are fighting for them. There are states that have not even considered a gay marriage bill. California's just a work in progress, and I'm sure the fighting won't end, sadly. However, I could see gay marriage here sometime in the near-ish future. The newer generations just gotta get it's voting rights so that the majority are for it.

I protested in the rain and had people throwing shit and yelling at us. My favorite was "Go back to West Hollywood". And yet it still passed. I almost cried when I found out. The next day at school I wore a vote no on 8 sticker and someone ripped it off my shirt. Ripped it. So messed up, the whole situation.