The California Supreme Court has followed the lower state courts and refused to order that a proposed initiative to limit marriage to opposite-sex couples be removed from the November ballot. The supporters of same-sex marriage, having been able to achieve their end as usual only by the elitist and anti-democratic means of persuading four out of seven appointed judges to change the always accepted understanding of marriage and of the state constitution, decided to roll the dice once more. They again hoped to use the judicial guardians to prevent the voters from having a say about the meaning of the constitution. That is not the actionof someone confident about the political outcome. This time they lost. But one can rest assured that, if the constitutional initiative is approved by the voters, those same people will be back in court to try yet again to thwart democratic self-determination. That is one of the reasons I find the liberal slogan to “have every vote count” so galling and hypocritical.
“The facts of life are conservative.” - Margaret Thatcher
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