Re: Vote NO on Prop Eight

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From: kujebak
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:28

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On Oct 29, 6:47 pm, "A Browne" <Rpalino@mailandnews..com> wrote:
> > Let's not forget forget this measure
> > would not have been necessary if the court had respected
> > the will of the people in the first place.
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> The "will of the people" is not the final sole arbiter.
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> Civil Rights are not up for popular vote.

It has nowhere been established "homosexual marriage"
is a civil right. It has merely been opined to be possibly
so by the courts by reference to inappropriate precedents.
Precedents held inappropriate by a majority of Californians.
The purpose of Proposition 8 is to clarify the legal ambi-
guity of homosexual marriage as a civil right. That's all
there is to it.

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> If the majority of "the people" decided to re-institute slavery, it would
> not be valid, because the consitution doesn't allow it.

Inappropriate precedent. Besides, there are numerous other
illegal family arrangements, which no one would ever consider
a civil right guaranteed by the constitution.
Though perhaps they should ;-)

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From: kujebak <kujebak@eudoramail.com>
Newsgroups: sac.general,ba.general,ba.politics,la.general,scruz.general
Subject: Re: Vote NO on Prop Eight
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:28:38 -0700 (PDT)
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