Reelected: President Obama may be the first president whose

election was decided by society's now-former outcasts. Could

this be the beginning of a trend in global leadership?

'Whores, Junkies, and Queers' Determine U.S. Election (El Espectador, Colombia)

"Having a progressive, mixed race U.S. president is the least one can expect in a globalized world, where the real minority is White, heterosexual, Anglo Saxon and Protestant, and who when in power, have throughout history, marginalized women, substance users, and the LGBT community seeking to defend their legitimate rights, by calling them whores, junkies, and queers. Today it turns out that united - whores, junkies, and queers are a powerful electoral force that has stood up to elect a new kind of Western leader. Colombian politicians should take note."

By Catalina Ruiz-Navarro

Translated By Florizul Acosta Perez

November 9, 2012

Colombia - El Espectador – Original Article (Spanish)

Obama’s victory is a victory for women, ethnic diversity, the LGBT community, consumers of psychoactive substances and the countries that produce them, and for young people and and elderly, who all demonstrated that although a minority, they can be a majority that carries political influence.

This is probably the first time that these groups installed a president in the most powerful position in the world - and they did it by supporting a sensible line of reasoning that in this election, faced the fanatical and extremist superstitions of Republicans. So Obama’s victory is, above all, a victory for reason.

Already, one of the great gains of Obama’s second term is the legalization of gay marriage, which within just hours became a reality in several states, and little by little it will be accepted worldwide, as it is obvious that there is no valid reason to prohibit a community the option of formalizing love and forming a family. The only arguments to ban it belong to a religious tradition that must not be imposed on those who don't believe in it. This was achieved though a strategic and coordinated effort by LGBT groups and activists, along with the help of researchers and academics who one-by-one dismantled the myths behind this ban: that the gay marriage is unnatural, as if the institution of marriage were somehow natural, and that the members of the gay community are immoral and irresponsible, when ethical behavior has nothing to do with sexual orientation.

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Meanwhile, Obama’s presidency comes with an atmosphere of legalization (or better yet, fishing for legalization) - a necessary measure to be able to control and reduce drug abuse, which has been proven to be historically and culturally inevitable, and a prohibition which has been the teat that has nourished drug trafficking to the point that it has became an unstoppable monster that has claimed millions of lives - particularly Latin-American lives. Since Wednesday, for example, marijuana legalization is a fact in the State of Colorado. This is the first step to ending the stigmatization of its users and understanding that insisting on prohibition is like repeatedly slamming your head against a wall expecting that next time, your head will be stronger than stone.