I've been wondering "why now?" as well, and the problem I have with Dan Savage's argument is that I felt that the Proposition itself was an attack and therefore don't understand why people didn't take it as one. The other argument I heard was that people really didn't think it would pass and so spent more of their energy campaigning for Obama. Which in retrospect was short-sighted, this is California, Obama was going to get the Electoral votes anyway.

All that aside, the passage of the proposition has absolutely outraged and offended me far more than the original proposition did. I really didn't believe it would pass either.

I'm trying to decide which protest to go to. There are three in my immediate area here and a ton of choices if I head out to L.A.