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I might not be the most politically intellectual sixteen year-old, but I can tell you I was devastated when I found out Prop-8 was upheld today.

“In addition to rejecting the gay-rights lawyers’ contention that Proposition 8 was an illegal constitutional revision, the court also flatly discarded Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown’s argument that the measure was unconstitutional because it affected an “inalienable right.”

But the court said “well-established legal principles” require that Proposition 8 be applied only prospectively, leaving intact same-sex marriages that occurred before the November election.”

“Before last fall, California was one of only two states — the other was Massachusetts — to permit same-sex marriage.

Iowa, Connecticut, Vermont and Maine have since legalized it, and lawmakers in New York, New Jersey and New Hampshire are considering bills of their own.”

[pulled from Los Angeles Times. Full article can be found here ? http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-prop8-decision27-2009may27,0,6677891.story]

Andy Thayer, co-founder of Day of Decision recently received widespread news coverage after being arrested along with 30 others while participating in a Gay Pride protest in Moscow, Russia.

“If President Obama does not repeal DOMA [defense of marriage act] and DontAsk, DontTell, both of which he promised our community while running for President, the only gay Divorce you will see, for those of us who supported him, is the gay community’s divorce from the Democratic Party” -Robin Tyler co-founder of DOD.

“No civil rights movement has EVER lost. Never. It is not a matter of if our community will win full equal rights, including marriage. It is only a matter of when. But as in all civil rights movements, we will have to fight like hell for it” -Robin Tyler

Can we be like drops of water falling on stone?
Splashing, breaking, disbursing in air,
Weaker than the stone by far, but be aware
That as time goes by, the rock will wear away.