What ever happened to the vaunted Gay GOTV machine? With that horror show on the menu they could only get 49% turnout?

Marriage is matter of the community recognizing and sanctioning the existence of a relationship between two of its members.

In my experience, the change in the nature of the relationship is first recognized by the couple. If you think you’re married and Pac thinks you’re married, and your friends think you’re married, well … you’re married.

If the sheeple of the State of California don’t want to recognize your relationship, I’m sorry for them. Remember that going on 48% of the electorate recognized this horror for what it is. They’ve made it more difficult for you to get some of the rights you and Pac deserve to have, and impossible to get others (like filing joint tax returns.) This too shall pass.

Also remember that the horror is legally suspect — that’s what happens when amateurs try to write legislation. They f*** it up. Don’t be surprised if they f***ed this up too.

Keep the faith, my friend. The tide of history is on your side.

You’re married if you believe you are. It’s kind of pitiful that so many people out there are insecure enough about that to need to define their marriage against marriages they think are less real.

It’s even more pitiful that statistics show that those people have a higher divorce rate.

I’d be proud to dance at your wedding. i hope to get the chance.

According to SFgov, SF only had a 49% turnout. That seems extremely low given the importance of proposition 8 to SanFran.

If SF had an 80% turnout like LA, that would have been another 144,277 votes cast. If we assume that the ratio of yes/no votes was consistent (76y/23n) with the current votes cast in SF, then that would be another 109,651 votes for NO, 34,625 for YES.