MSNBC's Keith Olbermann may try too hard to be Edward R. Murrow sometimes, but this response to California's Proposition 8 is right on the money. This special comment on the recent overturning of gay marriage in the sunshine state pretty well expresses what needs to be said about this decision.

Olbermann is host of Countdown on MSNBC and often uses the show as a platform for passionate speeches like this one, sometimes to an annoyingly soapboxy degree (check out Ben Affleck's spot-on lampoon of the man on SNL), but this issue needs to be addressed and I am impressed by the way Olbermann responds to the vote.

If people are really so hungry for change, it is time to start regarding gay marriage as a civil rights issue. Obama's win seems to have helped this country take a step forward in terms of race, but there continues to be discrimination against gays and lesbians, and this simply must end. If we really want to progress and move forward as a nation, people's attitudes and votes on the issue of gay rights needs to evolve.