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"If you fight love, you're always the loser."

-- Economist.com

This has to be the best slogan yet in the political battle in California over gay marriage and Poposition 8.

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I do not know much about this case, so may be you can correct me:

The people of California have voted to define marriage as between a man & woman. These gay marriage advocates do not like this decision & so have gone the legal route to overturn it. The court has said sorry, but your own peers have arrived at this decision via a democratic process, so it is valid. Right so far?

What happened in Iowa etc. was awesome & it would be great if it was the case in the rest of the country. But social change takes time - & nobody likes that. However, when everyone else (whether they like it or not) is showing respect for democracy by following due procedure, it sounds like these guys are a bunch of sore losers, man! Am I missing something here?

The change favoring gay marriage has been coming fast and strong in just a few years, and there is some impatience with getting this latest civil rights revolutuion legitimized in full. But there is some real legal controversy whether voters can deny marriage now that it has been acknowledged as a right in practical effect. Some have likened it to the allowance of interracial marriage. Once the right is realized, voters cannot come back and take it away, at least not without a full amendment which would require a super-majority. In this case, the Calif. court seems to be drawing a very fine line, and giving the gay rights people just about everything except the name. This is a lot, but it's easy to understand the annoyance - it's going to happen and it's just a matter of time.

Maybe you are right. These are exciting times & maybe the gay rights folks in California are being a tad impatient.

It will be a while before this matter finally reaches the US Supreme Court. I hope they maintain decorum until then.