Feelin' Better

OK, I'm feeling a little better now. It took a couple of days but I think I've come to grips with this election fiasco. It's been interesting to watch the reaction of the No on 8 people to their defeat. For a group that preaches tolerance, I see little of that coming from them. On election day, as I drove into work, there were Yes on 8 signs lining one street. However, each had been spray-painted with a big NO over the YES. Why did we hear about so many Yes on 8 signs being stolen or vandalized and very little about violence against the No on 8 group? It's the Yes on 8, pro-marriage, pro-family group that is the the compassionate and tolerant one. Don't let the others convince you differently.

Here's the bigger issue. The No on 8 group used the subtitle "Equality for All" on their campaign. But it is not that they want to be equal, they want to be the SAME. Their subtitle should have been "Sameness for All.' The problem there is that they can never be the same. Homosexual couples will never be able to have children naturally. A similar situation came up a few years ago when feminists tried to pass the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). When you think of that campaign as well as the No on 8 campaign, both misused the word 'equal'. I don't know anyone who's against equal rights for homosexuals or women. But women can never be the same as men. And homosexual couples can never be the same as heterosexual couples.

I didn't agree that Obama should be president, but I'm also not going to file a lawsuit. The No on 8 group should learn this lesson.