Here's an issue forgotten on pen-l (though likely not by its participants). From SLATE's summary of major US newspapers: >Many who were celebrating an Obama victory yesterday suddenly felt the moment >wasn't as sweet as it could have been when they checked the news and >discovered that California's Proposition 8 was approved. The LA [TIMES] >devotes a front-page piece to the measure, which will write a prohibition of >same-sex marriages into California's Constitution, and says its proponents >managed to win backers by running an effective campaign that warned that >children would be taught about gay marriage in schools. The surge in black >voters played a significant role in this outcome as they made up 10 percent of >the voters and sided with the measure by margins of more than 2-to-1. Latino >voters also favored the measure by a small margin. Three lawsuits have been >filed asking the California Supreme Court to overturn the measure. The NYT >fronts a piece looking at how voters in Florida and Arizona also approved >measures prohibiting marriage between two people of the same sex.
> In the LAT's op-ed page, John Corvino writes that no one should see > Proposition 8 as more than a temporary delay in the advancement of gay > rights. "The path to inclusion is not always direct and the pace of change > almost never steady," writes Corvino. "This setback is by no means a final > verdict."< -- Jim Devine / "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
