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Keith Olbermann Anchor, Countdown ? Profile Finally tonight as promised, a Special Comment on the passage, last week, of Proposition Eight in California, which rescinded the right of same-sex couples to marry, and tilted the balance on this issue, from coast to coast. Some parameters, as preface. This isnt about yelling, and this isnt about politics, and this isnt really just about Prop-8.? And I dont have a personal investment in this: Im not gay, I had to strain to think of one member of even my very extended family who is, I have no personal stories of close friends or colleagues fighting the prejudice that still pervades their lives. And yet to me this vote is horrible. Horrible. Because this isnt about yelling, and this isnt about politics. This is about the human heart, and if that sounds corny, so be it. If you voted for this Proposition or support those who did or the sentiment they expressed, I have some questions, because, truly, I do not understand. Why does this matter to you? What is it to you? In a time of impermanence and fly-by-night relationships, these people over here want the same chance at permanence and happiness that is your option. They dont want to deny you yours. They dont want to take anything away from you. They want what you want—a chance to be a little less alone in the world. Only now you are saying to them—no. You cant have it on these terms. Maybe something similar. If they behave. If they dont cause too much trouble.? Youll even give them all the same legal rights—even as youre taking away the legal right, which they already had. A world around them, still anchored in love and marriage, and you are saying, no, you cant marry. What if somebody passed a law that said you couldnt marry? I keep hearing this term re-defining marriage. If this country hadnt re-defined marriage, black people still couldnt marry white people. Sixteen states had laws on the books which made that illegal in 1967. 1967. The parents of the President-Elect