With a black American president newly elected we have heard a lot about breaking taboos.
However, on the same day that Obama was elected, Gay marriage was eliminated in the state of California.
Doesn't anyone feel there is something wrong about that?
A minority president is elected, and at the same time, his country suddenly regresses in terms of human rights by banning another minority from civil rights.
Proposition 8 was passed to change the Californian Constitution, that allowed same-sex marriage since 2000.
Gay rights have always been taboo, but it has been the same for black rights for centuries.
Wouldn't there be an global outrage if black people were taken away their right to vote?
Or if the right to woman being able to vote was abolished?
Gay rights are yet a rather new voice compared to other minorities, but it would make more sense to support discriminated minorities in that 'time of change' brought by the election of President Obama.
Proposition 8 is not only a disgraceful regression of the state on basic human rights, it also poses many questions about the security of change.
If gay marriage can be eliminated from one day to the next, buried under a pretence of taboo breaking (with the election of the first black American president), it shows how fragile are the small battles that have been won.
If no one hears about this, it means the basic human rights we take for granted could be taken away any second.
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