Prop 8 Follow-Up
I have been listening to the post Prop 8 chatter and it would seem that the talking point for those against equal rights for gays is that the people have spoken and the court has allowed majority rule to triumph. The people have spoken: Little minds think little thoughts. They should consider this: What the California Supreme court did was reaffirm that the California Constitution allows tyanny of the majority where minority rights are not protected. Had the tables been turned and the people of California had voted to say that the Mormon Church must be taxed as a political entity, they would have been out in droves decrying the tyanny of the majority. Yet the very battle they have won allows us to do just that. They have forced their religious beliefs using majority rules on everyone in the state. Their reckoning will come in 2010 and then they will decry how this should only be done by a two-thirds vote. It is a sad day in California when some celebrate taking the rights away from a segment of our population.
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