Bittersweet Victory
Filed by: Brynn Craffey
November 5, 2008 8:30 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/11/bittersweet_victory.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/11/bittersweet_victory.php)
For California's LGBT residents, last night's historic election victory is a bittersweet one.
At the same time that Barack Obama's amazing victory was being proclaimed, it become clear that Proposition 8 was headed to victory. Bigotry went down to defeat on one front even as it triumphed on another. I drifted off to sleep listening to election coverage around 1:00 a.m., and I deliberately did not try to find out the latest Prop 8 figures, holding on to hope that it might still lose when San Francisco and Los Angeles precincts were finally tallied.
I woke up this morning to the devastating news: with 95% of votes counted, a historically high turnout of California voters, by a margin of approximately 4-6 percent, chose to stick it to the LGBT community.