Prop 8: The Right Wing’s Booby Prize

by Randy Shaw via Beyond Chron

Thu, Nov 6, 2008 7:02AM

Thursday, November 6, 2008 : Politics, and life, have winners and losers. But they also dole out booby prizes to the losers, and for a reason. That is the way the narrow passage of Proposition 8 in California, on the same night as Barack Obama’s landslide victory, should be viewed.

Despite garnering more than 50 percent of the vote, the anti-gay Prop 8 is a long, long way from having any practical impact on people’s lives. And I’m not just talking about the inevitable court challenges, which seem destined to culminate in a ruling by the same California Supreme Court that has already ratified the concept of gay marriage. I’m also talking about Prop 8’s breathtaking irrelevance both in our polity and in our communal consciousness. That irrelevance multiplies every month, every week, every day, every hour.

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