Bittersweet victory

Well, dudes and she-dudes, the polls are closed, the majority of the results are in....and I'm divided on the results. The Dems have taken the House and have a pretty good chace of taking the Senate. I'm happy that our nation sees that we need a change from the current pile of bull that's happening. What this will mean for the 2008 election is a little nervewracking though. Historically, in mid-term elections, if the House/Senate changes hands from one party to another, often is the opposing party who wins the next presidential race. For example, after WWII, during Truman's first term as president, the Republicans took the House and Senate, and then, at the next presidential race, democratic Truman was reelected. So, the Dems need to be careful if they're hoping for a successful Clinton or Obama run in '08 (Obama, Obama, Obama....he's my guy).

As for state referendums, I can only express complete disappointment in our nation. So far, South Dakota is the only state that is showing much sense as far as gay marriage bans go. I don't understand how we can still be living with such intolerance. Not banning gay marriage does NOT mean that the government is going to go into churches and force pastors or priests to marry a gay couple against their will. That is up to those churches to decide. What is the legal reason for this?? There is no threat of a slippery slope! I do not think that not banning gay marriage will lead to incest, child/adult relationships, beastiality, or any of the other horrors that conservatives would have you believe that gay marriage leads to. There is a major difference between two consenting non-related adults, and an adult and a child, or an adult and an animal, or anything like that. I just don't understand how people make the logical jump from one to the other. As far as the "sanctity of marriage..." oh yeah, marriage is so sacred right now. Maybe we should be taking rights away from heterosexual couples who get divorced and then want to marry again. "You failed at this once, showing that you have no resepct for the sanctity of marriage...you're no longer allowed to get married." Or maybe we should outlaw adultery again. Because, you know, gay couples aren't as valid as heterosexual couples. What hypocracy. And by what definintion are gay couples not as valid? By the Bible? As far as I know, we're not supposed to base our laws on the Bible. This is supposed to be a tolerant nation that supports religious freedom. The Bible is not our law-book. And our founders weren't even Christian! They were Deist. So, all this talk of sticking to our Christian ideals is false rhetoric. The fight is not over. It is up to my generation to continue to advance tolerance.