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But remember - liberals protest loudly, conservatives (and yes, the "silent majority") just quietly make sure to change their vote to Republican. The country does not want this, IMHO.

I don't think the African-American community - who votes about 90% Democrat - enjoy the analogy being made between gay rights and the civil rights struggle of the 50s and 60s. (And affirmative action is a whole other can of worms!) I was actually going to log back on tho say that sometimes the courts have "paved the way" on certain issues - like in Brown v Board of Ed., striking down "separate but equal" segregation. But wasn't that decision merely correcting the initial judicial activism which created "separate but equal" (in the Plessy v Ferguson decision) to start with? That wasn't in the Constitution, but by golly a court read it in there! Whatever. I'm gonna remember that one when some liberal brings up judicial activism!