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a majority of voters taking away the rights of minority groups is not Democracy, it's tyranny of the majority and in a democracy there always have to be safeguards against that.
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Separation of church and state, it is something the US is supposed to have in place. Where is it? That is the excuse you hear all the time when it comes to people voting against "Gay" marriage, "It's against my religion, I don't believe in it". If you don't believe in it, then don't marry someone of the same sex. Stay out of others' lives, especially when it isn't affecting you. Religion has no place in deciding what is law.
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When prop 8, that rotting corpse is finally given it burial, it will be a sad day
fo bigotry in America.
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do you watch your videos after you make them? just because that one judge is able to over throw 61% of the voters position, doesn't mean that he is a liberal and it doesn't mean that the united states is not a democracy...i don't believe the US is a democracy but not because of examples such as this. what it means is that there is a failure in the way the system works. thats all. the only reason it is such a big deal about same sex marriage is because the US was brought up on puritan beliefs
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PRO gay marriage if gay marriage gets banned ill make sure you get banned
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Mmm, I have to agree with you with the argument presented on the video. That's not the democratic way to do things.
And I totally agree with you in the polar bears argument, but I don't like the tone of the gay marriage argument.
Even in a democracy people should not dictate over other peoples personal life choices, just because they do not like them or is against their religion.
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Im a bi-polar bear. Gay marriage is only wedge politics - ie pick a controverial topic such as abortion and divide the electorate. Then pick the the biggest half and gain office. This guy sounds like a sterotypical dumb American ( with a wog accent) . I dont like like that pick-folk. is that a reference to that famous American Gothic painting. Thank **** Obama won. Lets hope common sense reigns.
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Protecting the planet you live on? Being concerned about deadly polution & global warming that effects every man, woman, child, animal, & plant on the Earth -- oh no!Scandalous! There's no reason why we can't have environmentally sound capitolism. The 2 CAN coexist. If we're all dead from cancer & melted ice caps, nobody's going to buy goods. Environmentalism is good for business.
Liberals AND conservatives weasle around the votes & get judges to change laws. It's not just one side.
Banning gay marriage is a prohibition of certain freedoms, so, to you I say, hypocrite.
insalias 2 years ago 2
And to you I say, thank you.
PropagandaBuster 2 years ago
Our state and federal constitutions are the supreme laws of the land. It is the role of the judiciary to determine whether laws are constitutional. Prop 22 was found to be unconstitutional. The court set forth the grounds in great detail in a 90 page opinion. In re Marriage Cases (2008) 43 Cal.4th 757. If courts did not serve this function, a majority could conceivably get together and vote into law all kinds of discriminatory mandates.The 3 branches serve as checks and balances on power.
hollydec 3 years ago 4
Very well written and I concur. However the judiciary has expanded its role from determining the constutionality of a law to legislating from the bench, in effect eliminating the legislature in our three branches of government.
PropagandaBuster 3 years ago