There are thousands of marriages at risk in California. The propositional election system is allowing a tyranny of the majority against a new sweep of committed monogamous relationships. Women and men who have committed their lives together have just had their lives put in new jeopardy. That stinks!
The amazing thing is that I am usually a great supporter of direct electoral involvement. I think the representative system has fallen under the control of party politics that has made it so hard for the average citizen to stand for office, much less influence things by direct ballot access.
But that is why we have Constitutional guarentees. That is why we have an uberlaw to protect us from the tyranny of the regular legal systsm. And in California it has fallen.
I am not even looking at a theological framework at this moment. I am simply venting my anger that those for whom homosexual marriage is not their business, namely heterosexual voters, are able to oppress in one day a significant segment of our population who were gaining equality in this nation.
It is wrong.
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