Well, I have no illusions about my own state -- if a similar constitutional amendment reached Texas voters, they would vote the exact same way. Sad but true. And it may very well happen here next year. All we can do is fight not to get the amendment to the ballot in the first place.

What hurt me about the Louisiana vote was knowing that my immediate family and probably all my relatives all voted for this thing. Knowing that they're all that bigoted. And yes, I think if you voted for this, you are a bigot. I don't have any sympathy for religious or moral arguments in favor of this crap. Sorry.

That's not politics; it's bigotry and hatred. And that argument about what's to stop them from saying it's OK for a person and an elephant to marry? Is bullsh*t. (And bigotry and hatred of an even higher order.) Because, in essence, what they're saying is that homosexuality=bestiality. Wanna make a rule? Define marriage as one human being creating a union with another human being. End of that ridiculous argument. Except of course then they start talking about how it's all going to lead to incest and child molestation, which, of course, is when my head explodes, and I can no longer argue with them, because anyone who equates two adults loving one another with an adult sexually abusing a minor or an animal makes me so angry that I can barely breathe, or compose a cogent argument in a comment box...which is why I should just shut up now.

The end.