More thoughts on Prop 8

America was supposedly founded on the separation of Church & State; yet the conservatives who saw to it that Proposition 8 was passed in California this week completely overlooked this. They say their concern with gay marriage is that all churches will be required to embrace the idea of same-sex marriage; this is not true. Liberal-thinking Americans WANT to keep church & state separate; therefore no church would be regulated to the point of requiring recognition of a rite its members do not believe in.

But a majority-vote in CA to restrict the rights of a minority (the gay minority) is outrageous, especially when it was subsidized by conservative groups based beyond California's borders.

The gay minority in America will coalesce and ultimately see victory with regard to equal rights in marriage and adoption. And history will record it as another chapter in America's quest for true equality for all its people. This remains a civil rights issue, not a moral one.