I have covered up the American flag in my signature and replaced it with another. [View All]

[SoonerPride]

Until Prop 8 is stuck down or the people rise up and reverse the hate, I will no longer show overt pride in the flag of this nation. Sorry. I just can't do it.

I live in red state hell and have long given up hope that my partner of 22 years and I could get married.

Then the California courts gave us hope.

We even planned a trip next summer to get a marriage license, even knowing that it would be worthless in Oklahoma. But least we'd have someone, somewhere who officially "validated" our partnership.

Work and finances precluded us from rushing out this year. But we held out hope on the good citizens of California to do the right thing. How sad it was for us on election night.

There we were in our powder blue Obama Pride shirts jumping up and down, crying tears of joy that Barack Obama was our president only to then be shedding tears of sorrow when we heard the result on Prop Hate.

I am both proud of and disgusted by this country at the same time.