Joy!
And I hope our American people celebrate this historic moment, savor the words “President-elect Barack Obama.”
God, that’s sweet…
And, of course, in this life, it is a rare moment when sorrow doesn’t slip in and sit hard close to joy. And like an exhalation follows an inhalation, a sobering thought needs to follow for those of our republic who exult in Barack Obama’s election victory.
The battle for civil rights is not over. Not for black Americans. And most especially not for gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgendered people.
It looks like California’s Proposition 8 is going to pass.
Similar anti civil marriage votes carried at the same time in Arizona and Florida. Each, sadnesses for those of us who are looking to that time beyond discrimination against LGBT people.
But there is something particularly bitter in seeing this basic human right acknowledged in the court, people marry and then have their marriages snatched away through an appeal to people’s bigotry made all nice by positive terminology.
Of course our national election suggests there are currents of history and eventually they prove to be irresistible.
And there will be more elections, more votes,
until we all are free.
Let us celebrate the moment.
And, let us not forget…
Yes, we can.
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