Posted on 11/18/2011 1:00:52 PM PST by Graybeard58
Are you saying that Proposition 8 violates the U.S. Constitution, and, if so, how does it do that? What provision of the Constitution does it violate?
That’s the part that irritates me, the fact that courts can rule and essentially make laws where we could have an organized system of coming into this country, registering with the authorities that you wish to be a contributing citizen, and so on. It’s almost like a university, if all I had to do was walk into a university classroom, pass off as a student, and get a free grade, the university would pretty much hit the trash heap fast. What makes us think that being part of a larger group doesn’t help with the United States as well.
This could have been Prop 182 or any of the propositions regarding limiting benefits to illegal, or it could have been one of the propositions liberalizing marijuana laws.
This decision was not about the particulars of the proposition, but whether or not people who successfully voted in a proposition could defend it through the courts if our state representatives choose not to.
This decision is a good one. In the future it may very well be used by liberals to defend a liberal proposition before the courts if a miracle occurs and a conservative governor fails to support that liberal proposition in court.
Do we always have to treat everything as a contest where whatever happens has to be treated as favoring or disfavoring one side or the other? This is not a football game where a bad call by the refs can tilt the game one way or the other.
This is real life where the calls by the ref are sometimes more important than the game being played.
“Proposition 8, overwhelmingly supported and passed by the California citizenry...”
Prop. 8 passed by 52% in 2008. The homosexualists will quit screaming about their “civil rights” being infringed by the majority the second they think they have the numbers to repeal prop. 8 through another popular vote. Of course that is if our black robed masters just don’t cut out the middle man.
Freegards
That's not at all what I am saying. I was responding to another poster who used as an example a vote by a majority to ban firearms and religion. That example was not valid for purposes of comparison.
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