It has come to my attention that my discussion was deleted. WHY??

Well, the other part of disappointment has to do with the outcome of the presidential portion, and that is mostly because the majority of states gave their electoral votes to the republican side, but my state - which has 55 votes - gave it to the democrat side, therefore winning for Obama even though plenty of CA did not vote democrat. California ALWAYS votes democrat, so I did feel my vote didn't make a difference. I am also disappointed in my generation, which is the 30s and 40s, for most of the outcome on the propositions. It was NOT the younger generation that voted against equality and it was not the younger generation that voted for things that are going to bankrupt the state. For that I commend them and have to ask the rest what they were thinking.

BTW, CA was not the only state to have some measure of prop 8 on the ballot. I believe it passed in other states too, so again I am disappointed in those results as well.

Thank you! I am hoping to see more posts with what people said.

I do agree with you on that or maybe even a notification from mylot officials with an explanation would be nice.....maybe a chance to even speak your side of it?

I never even considered that aspect. I guess I should have thought of that rather than keep wondering if it was MY discussion lol. I wish I had been able to read it though. I think if a discussion gets deleted, the author should at least still be able to READ it.

By the way, I wish Prop 8 had failed. It removed a civil and HUMAN right - for someone to marry the person they love - based on a man-made perception of gender preference and based on how just SOME people feel about it. Majority is not always better, sometimes the majority is clueless and mean. It was a very SMALL majority either way you look at it.

As to the discussion being deleted I was quite shocked about that as I did not see anything in it that violated the rules and I wonder if someone just reported the discussion for abuse and they deleted it without checking. Do they do that? Do the check to see if it does violate the guidelines?

I agree with you that marriage is about 2 people that love each other and I find it very sad that they have done this.

It IS appalling and I'm sure that is why emotions were so high. I was miserable the day following the election. My older kids both know how I feel in relation to this. It would be embarrassing for me to be one of those parents who says 'I want to take rights away from people who have a different lifestyle'. Despite not being political in general, I really have strong feelings about this. Going backwards is awful, it's actually shocking that something like this could happen. Do you have civil unions at all in Australia? I was chatting with someone just the other day and she suggested that people can just go to Massachussetts to get married if they can't get married here. I asked her what she was thinking - it is so expensive to fly and some people have huge numbers of friends and family. It really is not feasible to have to be FORCED to go to another state in order to get married. I could hardly believe my ears. I believe marriage is a legal joining of two people. Two people. Not necessarily just a man and woman. Obviously ONLY people but see what I'm saying?

Part of what bothered me is that I know for a fact that discussion netted at least 15 replies, probably more. I was looking forward to having a fun and enlightening discussion with posters in the thread. I do receive notifies when I get a response so I did see that I had gotten a whole bunch of notifies, but when I did not see my thread in my 'started' discussions, I knew I'd never get to read anything anybody had said. I think that the discussion author should always be able to at least READ a discussion, even if it gets pulled from general view and other people can no longer comment, read, or respond.

I was not slamming anybody in particular - which is I think a violation, and I also wasn't slamming a group, I just don't think discrimination is okay and removing rights is directly in opposition to freedom, which is what America is known for. Oh well. Whomever had an underwear wadding moment and despicable attack, I do so wish they were not such a coward and at least had the balls to just tell me they didn't like my post lol. I wouldn't hold it against ya, I'm not that kind of person. I do tell people I don't like their posts all the time, but they do have the right to post whatever they want, regardless.

yeah i dont agree with slamming or anything like that..

This is a personal thing to me because rights should be equal. If they aren't equal, then they aren't rights, they are entitlements or privelages. If you call something a 'right', then it applies to all, not just one, two, a group, or a region, know what I mean? A right is also something that in inalienable and not earned, just simply a given regardless of other factors. I consider myself not barbaric and not hostile and stupid, and I also believe that people CAN live in harmony and peace - as long as they learn to stop taking what other people do personally and simply pay more attention to their own business. To heck with what others do, right?