The People's Right! to Self-Governance
by Debra J. Saunders
Within a decade, same-sex marriage probably will be legal in California. Thanks to the California Supreme Court 6-1 ruling on Tuesday to uphold Proposition 8, the law will be changed in the proper way — not by judicial fiat, but with California voters determining whether, when and how best to broaden the state's marriage laws.
In a 4-3 decision last May, the court had ruled that California's ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, as the state's civil-union laws conferred ...
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Posted by: Masako
Comment: #1
Sun May 31, 2009 8:10 PM
Re: James A, Sweeney: This vote was not a matter of democracy, but mob rule. But you're quite right, as long as the hate mongers get what they want, it's democracy in action, working just ignoramously fine. When they don't, the system has been subverted. The California mob rule system has brought that great state to bankruptcy, just like Wall Street funny money has done the same to our country, and real people are dying right now because of it. Real kids are not getting an education in a state that used to have the best schools in the nation, and now boasts one of the highest prison populations per capita in the world. The decline can be tracked to each decision of the mob that should have been made by democratically elected representatives, who have a little more time to spend figuring out how to run something as complex as a government than Joe Sixpack slobbering in front of a boob tube. Democracy protects minorities and cherishes them, even as its representatives are selected by majority vote. A majority vote on each issue of the day destroys anybody who wouldn't run with the herd. It's just organized crime, and easy fling word mongers like Saunders will never quite get the distinction.
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Posted by: Jobe
Comment: #2
Wed May 27, 2009 10:11 AM
The California Supreme Court ruling is like a ruling that states that it is unlawful for the banks to deny the bankrobbers the right to exercise their craft. Moral breakdown is unavoidable in our society, which has long ago abdicated its responsibility to NORMAL people. Deviancy isn't deviancy if there is no norm from which to deviate.
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Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Comment: #3
Wed May 27, 2009 7:55 PM
Ma'am;...You folks are happy enough with democracy when it is misused to deny minorities their rights...I hope you square heads realize that you are in the minority, and that your use of the vote for your purposes actually endangers all your wealth and property rights...If you were smart, you would use democracy to serve the public purpose, to discern the future and survive it...Instead you use the poor pitiful vote that we do have as a wedge to divide the whole population in the face of our enemies... Certainly it is criminal...More than this, it is stupid... If any behavior can be shown to actually injure society it should, and must be limited...Private property and extremes of wealth and poverty are just such injuries to society and should be eliminated... God forbid that we should actually have democracy, and could actually use it to accomplish some good for this people..Instead we use it to skewer and roast our dearest friends because it is all the power left to us..Beware....You might find that your constitution that so supports the rights you hate, and the privilages you presume could be wiped away whole, and built better in a day...You will find, that if the government and the constitution does not support the rights that people find essential, that it will lose the support of those same people...You cannot have it both ways... A constitution that does not support rights is useless... A democracy that can be used against the rights of the people is useless... With uselessness so much in control how can we expect better from our situation??? Thanks...Sweeney
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