I wish that Californians had understood what I knew in my heart. That when they voted yes on Prop 8, they weren’t voting about laws or rights or judicial activism or theology or lawyers or mayors or even tradition. They were taking daughters and sons and husbands and wives and sisters and brothers and uncles and nieces and aunts and nephews and grandparents and stepchildren and saying, “You. You over there. Not the other ones, just you. YOU ARE NOT A FAMILY. YOU NEVER WERE. YOU NEVER WILL BE.”
Because that’s what they did.
And so many of them still don’t even understand that.
A.