Proposition 8. The curtain has risen but the conductor's baton hasn't moved yet.

[icarus]

A few people have posted that Proposition 8 has passed (which is bad, bad, bad).

No.

That's not what's in the news. The news says it has a "comfortable margin." Mmm... sort of. It would be comfortable if the conservative/liberal votes were evenly distributed across the state.

It's only ahead by 300,000 votes, 53% 51.9% for banning gay marriage, 47% 48.1% against the ban.

However, the conservative inland counties have reported 100% of their votes. They're done. It's those votes that have it passing at this point. Meanwhile, less than half of LA's massive far-more-liberal precincts have been counted. The Bay area counties have only reported roughly a third of their precincts.

The fat lady hasn't sung on this one, folks.

Comments

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

This is so nuts. What does this mean for all those people who actually got married? Are they suddenly NOT married? Are there people looking around, going, "We went to bed married and woke up unmarried" today? It's bizarre! How do we fix this?

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Apparently gay couples who married before Proposition 8 will remain married.