Prop 8 Update: We're Mad as Hell!

• In the debate over who is to blame over the passage of Prop 8, it's interesting to note that San Francisco county had one of the lowest rates of voter turnout in California.

• Fernando Espuelas of Los Angeles' Spanish-language radio talk show Café Espuelas writes an article for CNN about why it was a mistake for so many Latinos to support Prop 8. Here is the money quote:
  
  
  "A marginalized minority — Latinos — voting to take away the rights of another marginalized group — gays and lesbians — is like the kid who's picked on in the third grade and only makes some headway when a punier kid comes along to take the punches instead."

More Prop 8 updates, after the break.

 Fernando Espuelas

•  Over at DailyKos Shanikka has a very in-depth look at the statistical breakdown of the Prop 8 vote.

• MormonsStoleOurRights is loaded with information about the Mormon church and also has a petition you can sign to get the IRS to drop the church's tax exempt status. 

• The New York Times has an article about how the passage of Prop 8 is going to hurt the state — already nearly $12 billion dollars in the red — economically. 

• Yesterday we linked to an article by Paul Festa over at The Daily Beast about Prop 8. Today it's singer Melissa Etheridge and she's is PO'd! She's right — why should any of us pay taxes when we aren't full citizens?

• Things got ugly at a protest in Hollywood after the election. Check out the video from WOW:
  

• Pop singer Christina Aguilera spoke out about Proposition 8, asking how anyone could put so much money behind keeping people from loving one another.

• Meanwhile, over on Huffington Post, Harvery Fierstein weighs in and if anything, he's even more pissed than Melissa. Check out his essay "Historic for Some, Same Old Sh*t for the Rest of Us".

• And for information on protests being held in California and Utah check out earlier post.