Mixed Feelings

I wrote a post a little more than three years ago, just after I started this Midlife Voice blog, about another voice that inspired me. In this, I ended with

"I would hope that kids these days would have a voice that would so impact them, that they would remember it forty years later. I'm afraid there isn't any."

With the election of Barack Obama, I felt hope that we will have a leader that brings change to America, and make it feel like our United States. That perhaps there is a voice that can right wrongs the outgoing administration has been heaping on us for eight years. He has a huge job ahead of him and I wish him well in the coming months and years.

The joy I feel for the outcome of the election is tempered by anger for the close minded decisions that ban same sex marriage in Florida, Arizona and California. The Cali decision is after their Supreme Court decided its legal to marry under the state's constitution and after thousands have married this year. How dare they take that right away. This is a civil issue, not a religious one. Perhaps Obama will instill civility to all of those who voted for him. I believe he understands the difference between Rights and wrongs and when civil disobedience is justified.