And yet, as if to prove that we still have a long way to go, proposition 8, which creates a constitutional amendment that bans gay marriage, has passed in California, the state that had the guts to open up gay marriage. I think we became complacent. None of us believed that, in California of all states, such bigotry could prevail. As monumental as Obama’s accomplishment is today, bigotry, is far from dead in this country.