Yet, I'll always remember today as the day California voted NOT to recognize my already legal marriage and voted to add discrimination to its constitution.
The day that California voted to give farm chickens (prop. 2) extended rights to move freely outside of cages, but voted to take away the California Constitutional right of Gay and Lesbian Americans (prop. 8) to legally marry.
Friends and family tell me Joel and I will always be married in their eyes. I thank them for their attempt at consolation, and I am grateful for the growing percentage of Americans who see what Gay rights are about and who support our fight for equality.
But, today I am ashamed of my home state, and of my country.
Dear Mr. Obama: I hope your message of inspiration is truly inclusive of queer people. I want to share in the optimism, but at the moment, I am disgusted and do not.
