On November 4th, voters elected Barack Obama to be the next president. On the same day, California voters approved Proposition 8, a measure banning same-sex marriage. In President-elect’s Barack Obama’s Victory Speech, he said:
It’s the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled, Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states. “We are, and always will be, the United States of America.
Some of the same individuals that voted for Barack Obama voted to ban same-sex marriage. While “race” is becoming less of issue in the U.S., the struggle for gay rights continues.