>>>>http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/04/california.same.sex.ruling/index.html?hpt=T1
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>>>>I wonder if someone could add up all the tax dollars that have been spent on this completely ridiculous issue.
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>>>>Memo to all politicians: 2 consenting adults ...what part of that don't you understand?????????
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>>>While I agree that the law is wrong, what I don't like is that a single judge can set aside what voters approved. What happened to democracy?
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>>It has long been considered a function of the judiciary to protect against laws passed due to the popular hysteria of the times but that violate our constitutional rights.
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>Replace the word courts with Kings. Not sure there is much difference here. Remember, 5 judges changed eminent domain laws so Walmart can now take property to build that new super center. Prior to Roe v Wade, there was nothing sopping a state from legalizing abortion. Again, 5 judges ( 5-4 decision) changed the law of the land. In a representative republic, the people or congress is supposed to make the laws. Judges are supposed to interpret the law as constitutional.
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>This vote should have stood no matter the outcome.

I disagree entirely. People should have the right to vote away other people's rights just because they make them queasy, and most especially when those other's rights have no real impact on their own rights or lives.

If the Judiciary doesn't watch that the majority doesn't trample the rights of the minority, then who will?

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>>One could argue the merits of this decision. But to say that the courts cannot strike down what the voters approve means that they could not strike down a voter approved law that says.......
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>>"Marriage is defined as being between two people of the same race"
>>"Marriage is defined as being between two people of the same religion"
>>"Marriage is defined as being between two people of the same age"
>>"Marriage is defined as being between two people of the same eye color"
>>"Marriage is defined as being between two people with the same first name"