Reply #1: Californians in general are just not as liberal or open as we are portrayed.

[tjwash]

The Mormons and Catholics bankrolled this, but it was ultimately the voters that had to decided it. One of the biggest "to blame" groups seems to be the so-called influx of Latino voters that allegedly flooded the polls to vote for Obama, and voted no on 8 because of their predominately Catholic background.

I have a little problem with this theory, in that if there actually was a massive influx of Latino voters that was able to swing the vote so heavily to the YES side of prop 8, then why was Prop 4; which was nothing but a backdoor anti-abortion proposition, as soundly trounced as it was Tuesday night? There was really no hint of a battle at the polls on 4. At all. Being from Cali myself, the one thing that Latinos in California are very passionate about, are the very vocal and fervent anti-abortion stances that the community holds. So if the "blame the Latin-Americans" theory was true, then 4 should have easily gotten passed as well.

No. I think that there are 2 possibilities. The first one, being that the ballot boxes were stuffed, and the voting was rigged. The second, is that there are a hell of a lot more bigoted assholes in California that we will admit to having here. Sadly, I am starting to lean to the latter, and am starting to think that the people of California are just that bigoted against GLBT's. Believe me, it sucks to have to admit that, but there it is. As much as the desire is to point the finger at a certain group of people, I can't. With the exclusion of the Gay and Lesbian voters, we can pretty much spread the blame for this one across all of the California voting demographic.

The thing is...it looked real promising on the runup to the election polls. Likewise, the exit polling looked good. Just makes one realize that the "Bradley Effect" is alive and well. We seem to have defeated it in regards to race, but it is alive and well, and working against the Gay community.