Progress Stifling Initiatives

Sorry, I'm going to move away from eco-consciousness for a minute here to discuss social-consciousness, which should also be part of any company's triple bottom line (social, environmental, and economic factors which determine success -- or people, planet, profit) -- although this isn't really a company-based rant. It concerns me that Proposition 8 is on the ballot in this November's California election. A vote "for" the proposition would mean that gay couples who were told that they could get married (as of May 16 -- just four short months ago) would now go back to being not able to get married. Doesn't that seem like a step backward? Kind of like if we said "hey, we know that racial segregation in the public schools was deemed unconstitutional a while back, but as voters, we'd like to add a proposition to get segregation considered A-OK again." Seriously, people. Let's move forward.