Friday, December 19, 2008

Having your cake and eating it too... A note on voiding California Proposition 8


The supporters of Proposition 8 in California keep wailing plaintively that the thousands of people in California whose marriages were recently declared invalid should "accept the will of the people."

"Opponents of same-sex marriage have urged protesters to accept the will of voters." - NY Times

Hmmm....

Aren't these the same people who have spent the last 35 years trying to overturn Roe v. Wade, which is the will of the vast majority of the American people who want to keep abortion safe and legal? How many times have they argued that their "moral imperative" overrules the "mistakes" of the courts and legislatures? It seems they'd like to have their cake and eat it too.


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