It’s a pity about Proposition 8. What now? Lots of lawsuits involving the gays already married; lots of plane flights to Massachusetts and Connecticut; and another proposition in two years, repackaging gay marriage as ‘civil unions’.

I expect there’s going to be more of this. I expect that not only will more people begin to be persuaded by the kinds of data you show here, but that there’s going to be a bipartisan effort to move the country past this debate. There will always be the fringe extremists, but if we and Obama are successful, that fringe is going to be pushed more and more out of the spotlight, so that the pragmatists can solve this thing and move the country forward.

And I will say that there is a generational thing going on here. The old time religionists – the Falwells and the Dobsons – are dying off. The younger generation – epitomized by Obama – are much more practical and less dogmatic (and it’s about time).

Finally, there are a lot bigger issues than abortion coming up. Destroying the planet’s ecosystems by global warming and other devastations will make abortion pale in importance. The human race is going to have to grow up a lot more quickly, and we will look back on these particular fetishes that dominated our era and our energy as trivial.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/palin-once-greeted-mccain_n_141394.html

Feed her to the polar bears!

Sadly, the homophobes… not so much. Even Obama says he doesn’t support the right of gay people to marry. Minds like his need to change first. Maybe in his second term.

Dear Tami,

I am so glad that you represent the fringe right-wing of American politics and that your politics of fear and hatred have lost.

I can only hope that the Republican party gets back to its true roots and that it once again becomes the party of Lincoln and Eisenhower.

In the meantime, I think that President-elect Obama has the determination, the intelligence and the fair-mindedness to take on the huge challenges and problems that George Bush and the radical right have left your country to deal with.

I was extremely impressed with Sen. McCain’s concession speech. My husband and I both remarked that if the man who spoke last night (the “real” McCain?) had been running against Obama, things might have turned out differently. But in pandering to the radical right-wing of the party, he lost both his soul and the election.

I feel great relief this morning and wish the US well as this new era dawns. Perhaps you too will come out of the darkness one day and participate in building America back into the beacon of hope and justice that it once was. Miracles do happen.

I was probably too polite, but hey, it’s here site. BTW, I don’t think she’ll publish my comment.

And now my comment to Maha and her readers:

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!