Traditional marriage wins, again, in a blue state like California.

In California, the gays and lesbian have essentially the same as marriage, it's called a civil union/domestic partnership. The Proposition 8 battle was over the word and usage of the word "marriage". The gay/lesbian rights activist are demanding the right to use the word "marriage", to get government issued marriage licenses, and to have the State recognize their wedding/civil union/domestic partnership as a marriage.

But gay/lesbian rights activists have not used the political process to attain this goal, they have used the courts. If the gay rights activist would use the legislative/initiative process to pass a law or make a constitutional amendment via the popular vote, it would mean that society as a whole believes they are being discriminated against. The gay rights activists chose not do this, because they KNOW will lose every time. The constitutional right to be married was not won through the legislative/political, but through the judicial fiat. This forces the gay/lesbian rights activist demands on a majority of society without any input of society.

Do the gay/lesbian rights activists really think society will accept them with open arms because a court forces them? Do you think this might cause more animosity and hate, since THEIR minority view was forced on the majority?

Win your point of view through the legislative process, convince the majority your point of view is correct, then society will accept them.

The crazy part, which just show how weak the gay right activist arguments are, you cannot get a gay marriage law passed in California or any Blue state. One has to ask yourself..............

Why?

If such a massively supported civil right is being denied, why will no legislature pass that law? Why won't a majority in California or any legislature pass a law and make such a bold statement about "equal rights?" What the gay rights activist fail to understand, they are not asking for equal rights or civil rights, they are demanding special rights, ones that they are forcing on the rest of society against the collective will of the people. That is not democracy, that is a dictatorship.

Since no legislative body will do it, I think that says it all.

Racism is dead in America.

I would argue that racism is essentially dead since a black man was elected president.

Several Demographic groups have immigrated to this country over the last 100 years and have been successful within three generations. Only 60 years ago, the American Citizens of Japanese decent were interned, against their will, for being the wrong color, and they have fully integrated into American society. The Vietnamese flooded this country in the 70's and after the fall of Saigon and the kids of those immigrants are doctors, lawyer, even politicians. Neither of these groups are white! You can easily spot them in the crowd since they look different, yet each successive generation is more successful than the prior generation.

So one has to ask yourself, why has the Black population continue to stagnate and not make wholesale improvements, generation after generation? It's not due to racism or slavery.

Slavery ended over 150 years ago. The last slave died at least 50 years ago. When will the excuse of slavery be too old to blame for the plight of Blacks in America?

I think it's something else......

I do think they are intentionally kept down, by others of their own race and the liberal policies "designed" to help them.

One of the nice benefits of Obama's win!!

My main joy is this will finally silence the race-baiting demagogues like Jesse and Big Al. They are finally out of jobs and made irrelevant. Yeah!! That is why Jesse was crying at the Obama victory speech. They are no longer the most influential black men in America.