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Do I see a “to hell with democracy” moment in California’s future?

A few months ago, the California Supreme Court overruled the will of the California voters and announced that gay marriage was a fundamental right.  The voters responded by changing the California Constitution to state that, in California, marriage is between one man and one [...]

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Listen, and understand. That terminator is out there. It can be voted down…but it might go to court over it. It thinks you can be reasoned with. It feels pity, remorse, fear, phony compassion, and tons and tons of guilt. And it might stop, before you are dead. Maybe. Or it might maybe undo you.
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Marriage is not, and never has been, a personal right.  In Western society, it operates at two levels.  First, it functions at a religious level.  This is a deeply personal level, because in every religion, marriage is, or is equivalent to, a sacrament.  In America, you have the Constitutional right to be married in the [...]

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The ass brigade known as Google is currently featuring a headline on Google News about opposition to California’s gay marriage along side some even bigger group of asshat’s rendition of President Bush and Tony Blair cuddling together naked wrapped in an American flag. (h/t Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters).

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California joins Massachusetts.
I’ll be interested to read the decision when I get the chance.
As for me, let me reiterate my usual point. I am not categorically opposed to gay marriage. However, I think we’re rushing too fast to change human relationships that have been fixed across all human cultures for thousands of years: [...]

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