{"id":6376,"date":"2009-05-28T00:47:45","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T00:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/05\/a-victory-for-democracy.html"},"modified":"2009-05-28T00:47:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T00:47:45","slug":"a-victory-for-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/05\/a-victory-for-democracy.html","title":{"rendered":"A victory for democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

All of the citizens of California, lefties, the rightwing and the gay community, should be thankful for the California Supreme Court’s decision concerning Prop 8. Democracy prevailed! As the SF Gate notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

California’s voters, not its courts, are the final judges of same-sex couples’ right to marry. And even if they’re barred from marrying, gays and lesbians are not the victims of unconstitutional discrimination.
\nThose were the two clearest messages in Tuesday’s 6-1 ruling by the state Supreme Court that upheld Proposition 8, the November initiative that amended the California Constitution to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. They came from a court that had seemingly said something quite different a year earlier.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The gay community should be thankful because if they ever pass their own proposition to amend the constitution, it will not be overturned except by the will of the people, not activist judges creating rights where there aren’t any. And for now, they can go to Iowa, Connecticut and Massachusetts (and if they can wait until September, Maine and Vermont) if they want to get married. That’s the beauty of our system, if you don’t like what your state is doing, you can move to one that suits your preferences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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