yeaaa!

[badgercat]

I realize I'm in the minority on this board when I say that Barak Obama was not my choice for president, but he still will be my president. I refuse to treat our new president-elect the same way others have treated the current president. Those that voted against Obama should set a higher standard of civility and citizenship than those that didn't vote for Bush in the last election. This doesn't mean I'll ignore different principles, but it does mean that I'll give him a chance. I hope he rises to the occasion.

Well said. While I did vote for Obama, I definitely agree with your sentiments. I hope that even if one doesn't agree with Obama's politics, one can at least respect that he's a smart man and good politician who wants to do right by his country. I believed the same thing about McCain, and had he been elected, I still would have still gotten behind him and been ready to move forward as a nation.

I'm happy that Obama won, but I remain cautiously optimistic about where things will go in the next four years.

And those of you who have been personally affected by marriage/adoption amendments, my deepest sympathies are with you. My boyfriend and I have lived in Illinois, Wisconsin (passed a ban in '06), and now Arizona (voted down a ban in '06). We had often talked about how if we got married, it would be here in AZ, because we could feel better about getting married in a state that had voted down a constitutional gay-marriage and civil-unions ban. But then Prop 102 passed yesterday. I think this new measure passed because it was "just" about "marriage," and... blah. I just don't see any reason for something like that to belong in a constitution.

ETA: I realize that my concerns about where to get married are relatively minor, considering that many people can't get married to the person they love at all, or have been married and now fear that the state will dissolve it. I guess I'm just trying to illustrate that LGBT rights are not something I take lightly, or write off because it "doesn't affect me." I worked long and hard to fight Wisconsin's ban in '06, and donated money to the fight against Prop 102 in AZ, and unfortunately... well, we all know how those turned out now.