Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Prop 8 Struck Down

I think we can give this news a certifiable 'woot woot!'

That said, this is another one of those things that Conservatives will foam about and I get queasy about. You can't totally ignore the fact that people voted on this issue- lots of them, including, helpfully minorities wanting to vote for President Obama in 2008... on the face of it, it does seem like the courts flouting the much bally-hooed 'will of the people' but it raises an interesting question: what if a state voted in a referendum to ban interracial marriage? Or reinstate segregation? Or any number of other distasteful and frankly hateful things... what are the Constitutional implications of those scenarions. When does direct democracy have to take a back seat to our representative democracy? How do you find that balance, where do you draw that line?

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