Barack and Banning in the same Breath

People today have been hailing the election of Barack Obama as a mark of the times - an indicator that discrimination is on the decline. On this same day though, California voted "Yes" on Prop 8, banning gay marriage. They revoked civil rights from their fellow man and rewrote the California Constitution with the pen of discrimination.

If I live to be 106 years old, like the woman that Obama talked about in his acceptance speech, what will I see? I believe with little doubt that we will look back on this repression of homosexual rights with the same disdain that we look at the repression of black rights and women's rights.

How can I be so sure of this future? Because it was the youth vote - my generation - that voted 2:1 against Proposition 8, and with the mainstream media helping America become more comfortable with homosexuality, it's only a matter of time before gay marriage is legalized everywhere.

Here's a great clip from the West Wing, in which the President confronts a talk show host who holds homosexuality as an abomination: