In the midst of this depressing morning, facing the likelihood of another 4 more years of Bush and the personal hatred most gays and lesbians are feeling from over half the electorate, there is a bit of good news, my mother, strongly republican, voted against banning spousal rights for gays in her state and convinced several of her friends to do the same.
A news commentator mentioned this morning that in previous elections people voted against their economic interests because of racial issues, that basically, southern whites’ hatred of blacks led them to vote for candidates that negatively affected their daily lives. Today it looks to homosexuals that many U.S. voters made similar choices because of their hatred for gays.