>SNIP
>>And I think this year election, at least in the U.S., is a good example of your theory.
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>>We had practially all the main stream media bashing Bush. We had renegade courts granting wedding licenses to same sex couples with no regard to what the law states.
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>Dean,
>I think you're misunderstanding what those "renegade courts" were doing. They were upholding the law as it was written and definitely not ignoring the law.
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>It's interesting to me that states with 'gay marriage' plebescites ALL had them agreed, some even with very draconian measures in them. This is a prime example of the "tyranny of the masses" that your founding fathers were so concerned about preventing! It now becomes impossible, in those states at least once enacted, for marriage-minded gays to pursue their own "life, liberty and HAPPINESS". The masses have denied them that right! How good is that??? I suppose it's perfectly fine when it only involves OTHER PEOPLE. Now lets see some state pass a law outlawing the ownership and possession of hand guns and see what happens!
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>cheers

Ok here we go again..... :)

I personally don't have a problem with gay marriage. I neither condone or condemn.... But I don't appreciate it when a small group trys to force it down my throat. And if one day it is passed, I'll accept it.

I think eventually legal same sex marriage will happen. But people naturally don't like it shoved down their throat. I think what few court did hurt the gay/lesbian cause and delayed what may have happened sooner. I think the 11 "Anti" gay marriage vote happened out of anger. Anger against some left wing courts pushing their agenda without having the "masses" having a say.