Support Overturn of Proposition 8
Progressive Change Only Partially Achieved Despite Victory of President-Elect Barack Obama
By Yvette Felarca
Contributing Writer
Friday, December 5, 2008
http://www.dailycal.org/article/103805/support_overturn_of_proposition_8We have a lot of work to do. On the same night that Senator Obama was elected president, the right to gay marriage was struck down in California with the passage of Proposition 8. Our movement must overturn Prop 8 and defend the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexual and transgender people. The LGBT community and the immigrant communities are both gripped in the struggle to end their second class treatment and to defeat irrational prejudices and discrimination. One of the central aims of the new civil rights movement must be to unite these two struggles into a single movement inexorably bound together by their shared fight for equality.
