HOPE AND CHANGE! Minorities at war on Obamaland’s Western shore. “Even as Barack Obama’s Tuesday election to the presidency was being hailed as a triumph for social justice throughout most of the United States, it was sowing discord in California, where ballot Proposition 8 forbidding gay marriage under the state constitution surged to a surprising victory and turned the state into a powderkeg.” Personally, I’d like to see the separation of marriage and state, taking this stuff out of the political realm entirely.