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As a gay American, I too felt the joy the day Newsom passed his legislation. It was palatable, even to the nether regions of a small town in Mississippi. It was inevitable, and yet, just because something is inevitable, doesn't mean the timing is right.
It was an election year. Anyone cognizant of the events happening after 9/11 could have predicted what would happen leaading to the gulf wars. Whereas gay assimiliation is an eventuality, the war that we are presently engaged in, begun by George Bush, and handed to the Republicans on a silver platter by Newsom, couldn't have come at a worse time. We blindly were led into war with rhetoric...with four years behind us, and the proper leadership, (and with a President, Al Gore, not in bed with the Saudis), war would not have been an eventuality. It was preventable. I blame the war completely on Newsom.
I do not feel that the joy and release, that would have come eventually, was worth the thousands of souls, gay and straight, we have lost in an asinine war. Newsom has blood on his hands. I guess his wife pretty much thought the same...she didn't stick around him very long after that either. Being a journalist, she could forsee what perhaps others couldn't. Congrats to you, the now ex Mrs. Newsom, on having the wisdom to leave an idiot.
