here's my question of the day

I'm obviously preoccupied by a few things lately. Our church service at East Bay Church of Religious Science was packed and celebratory about the Obama presidency. The sermon reminded us about the power of hope that the duty we all have to live out our potential as human beings. At the end, Rev E compared the Prop 8 vote to childbirth: if you push too hard, you can hurt yourself and the baby. It's time will come, and you will push, and the birth will be easier, she said. It was the right proportion of celebration (and we sang God Bless America, which made a lot of eyes tear up), hope, and exhortation to continue moving.

But here's the new question I have:
What message did Prop 8 send to single-parent families? The implication is that they, too, are illegitimate, not good enough. That makes me sad, too. As my friend Emily wrote on her blog, to the children of gay & lesbian parents in the church in Riverside, CA where she was a youth pastor: "Family is not created by a man and a woman. Family is created by love, period."