I really dont' know how I'm going to get through this day. Why? Because today is voting day. Today we will find out if that 2nd class citizen badge I am newly wearing will stay or go. There has been so much to read from both sides. I have spent a lot of time in my head wondering if I have close friends and family essentially voting against me. Yes, against me. That is how I see it. It is a choice I see only having one right answer. And don't even get started on my "choice" to live how I do. I'll address that at another time. I have plenty to say about it.

So! I have been trying (in vain possibly) to find the silver lining if Romney is elected. This is one example of "I told you so" that I really don't want to be a party to, however should Romney win, his failings will be clear as day. I have no doubt that there will be plenty of blame placed back on Obama's shoulders. Where it will be impossible to transfer blame to Obama is in the area I am most concerned with, civil rights. Romney will shit on my rights, not only as a gay woman, but as a woman in general. Women across the country will be smacked in the face with the realization that they mean squat in they eyes of Mr. High and Mighty. Religious freedoms will be impacted. People not belonging to a specific and narrow version of Christianity will feel it even more than they do today. I am concerned about some of the legal ramifications of Romney mucking with appointees to the Supreme Court, but I feel confident that he will be challenged to the hilt. All of the other legal proceedings take so long, that Romney will have been booed out of office by the time anything would happen and a new president with a view that all people deserve equal rights will swoop in to erase the 70 years or so that Romney set the country back. So yeah, my silver lining is the people that will then gather and stand together to send him running for the hills. This is not a homogenized, white, Christian nation. It is an amazing country, filled with beautiful and varied people. Cultures and religious backgrounds from all over the world. We are amazing, and we will keep moving forward.