Oh Christ! :whatever:Didn't know marriage was a basic human right! By the way since when have we prevented them from getting married?http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4393905
Hello, my friends. It's been a while.
I live in CA and voted for Prop 8. Here are a couple of thoughts for lurking DUmmies:
1. Consider the followng map:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-2008election-california-results,0,1293859.htmlstory. If you take out the entire Bay Area, Califonia not only said YES to a ban on gay marriage, but HELL YES. It wasn't even sort of close. The same people you relied on to sweep Obama into the White House are the people who look poorly upon homos marrying one another. Chew on THAT.
The people have spoken, period.
2. Suppose there was a national referendum on abortion rights, as many DUmmies have craved. Suppose it passed. Next, suppose the Supreme Court ignored the lawful will of the people and struck down the vote, declaring abortions illegal. How would you DUmmies feel about a court circumventing the wishes of the people in favor of their own beliefs?
THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT DID WITH GAY MARRIAGE. THEY TOOK A LAWFUL VOTE AND TOSSED IT OUT THE WINDOW. We voters just said, um, sorry, Supremes, that's not your job.
So if you're REALLY a liberal, you'd be in favor of Prop 8, because it put the power in the people's hands, where liberals claim it belongs.
Of course, we all know that the real mantra of a liberal is, "I want what I want, and I don't care what I have to do or whom I have to do it to in order to get it."