Is it better to have loved and lost ...?

Is it worse to have enjoyed a golden summer of possibility only to be kicked in the teeth and sent back to the back of the bus? Yeah, I'm bitter. Bitter about vote numbers that are an order of magnitude better than the last time my potential right to marry came up on the ballot. But this time they're taking some thing away, not simply moving the goal line out farther. Oh, sure, I'd feel a lot worse if Prop 8 had been defeated but McCain had been elected. Don't interrupt my bitterness with rationality. My current fantasies are all turned towards the scenario where the state supremes say, "Ok, we told you that you couldn't treat same-sex and opposite-sex couples differently with respect to marriage. You want to take away some people's marriages? You have to take away everybody's marriages." None of this pussyfooting around about constitutional conventions and whatnot. Just a flat-out ruling that "equal protection" still means something.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go join a political protest in SF. (I'll be a little late arriving, but I moved my workout to after work so I could sleep in after going down to scotica's place for an election-watching party last night. One still needs one's priorities.)