Shit rolls down hill...

I did not think I would be disheartened merely one day after the election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States but it only took one article in the Toronto Star to do that. Three U.S. states ban gay marriage

According to this article two groups of oppressed people, African-Americans and Hispanics, long denied equal rights in the US have taken it upon themselves in California to perpetuate the oppression of another minority group, gays and lesbians. I find it incredibly offensive that people long punished for not fitting into the power structures of mainstream America should use their newfound political power to deny equality to others.

This kind of narrow vision and total lack of compassion is an abuse of the very hope that Obama has offered. In his acceptance speech he was so eloquently inclusive yet now his own supporters have already begun to repudiate that hope. Freedom and equality are not items to be parsed through referenda. These are taken to be inherent. America has stumbled in its first day out of the shadows,