Voting!!

Voted today - dropped off my absentee ballot at a polling place - saved a stamp, made sure it got there in time.

I am really nervous about Prop 8. It's the worst, most vicious piece of work that I've seen in a while, and the propaganda that its supporters have put out is nauseating. If it passes, the only people who will gain are lawyers and religious bigots.

Faux News is Weird

They have California labeled as a "Red" state, voting for McCain but with Zero precincts reporting.

California is a blue state, last I checked.

EDIT: Now they switched it to blue. Weirder

One down, Two to Go

Obama will be President!!!

Prop 4 is 50/50 at 9 pm

Prop 8 is 54/46 at 9 pm

Nail biting time

I want to cry

From the LA Times:

Perhaps more powerfully, the Proposition 8 campaign also seized on the issue of education, arguing in a series of advertisements and mailers that children would be subjected to a pro-gay curriculum if the measure was not approved.

"Mom, guess what I learned in school today?" a little girl said in one spot. "I learned how a prince married a prince."

As the girl's mother made a horrified face, a voice-over said: "Think it can't happen? It's already happened. . . . Teaching about gay marriage will happen unless we pass Proposition 8."

Many voters said they had been swayed by that message.

Amy Mora, a 26-year-old teacher, came with her mother to a polling place in Lynwood on Tuesday morning. She said she believes gay people have the right to marry one another. But she said she voted in favor of Proposition 8 because she does not believe students should be taught that gay marriage is acceptable.

Why?? Why?? If a prop wins on a lie, is it valid??

This bitch believes gays have the right to marry, but doesn't want kids to know it?? Wants kids to be taught instead that it's OK to write discrimination into a constitution by a simple majority vote??? Wants kids to learn that it's OK to deny people rights because they're different??