Who Shall Prevail — the Judges or the People?

ldfrmc »

Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:43 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Mr. Land may be president of a commission charged with ethics and religious liberty, but his statements totally lack credibility for their absence of facts and reason.

1. Mr. Land states: "Californians voted by a 61 to 39 percent margin." No. 54% of registered voters cast ballots in a 2000, off-season, primary election. That translates into a change in statutory law enacted by just 32% of registered voters in California. If all marriage-age Californians at that time, 25 million people, are considered, just 15% voted to restrict marriage.

2. Mr. Land continues: Proposition 22 "carried every county in the state, including San Francisco." No. It lost in 6 counties, including San Francisco County by a margin of 68% against, 32% in favor. It past by only a 2-3% margin in 8 other counties that include some of the largest cities that, individually, voted against it.

3. Mr. Land theorizes: "If they [voters this November] amend their constitution to define marriage as only between a man and a woman, they will have struck a blow for democratic government."

High school students know our government is a REPUBLIC with democratic processes. The legislature, the governor and now the Supreme Court have decided marriage is guaranteed by the Constitution to all adult couples in California who wish to marry.

If Mr. Land wants voters to strike a blow for anything, then maybe their initiative should try to change the form or process of our government.

The constitution guarantees the promise renewed by President Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address. Mr. Land quotes such, but fails to understand that the founders and Lincoln meant a government of ALL the people, by ALL the people, for ALL the people, shall not perish from the earth. That shall prevail.

When Judges Become Gods

ldfrmc »

Sun Jun 01, 2008 7:44 pm Agree: 5   Disagree: 4

President Lincoln's first iaugural address is very appropriate. It was reacting to the Dred Scott case of 1854. Mr. Scott was a black slave, living in a free state. The Supreme Court decision Lincoln was decrying maintained all black people, living any where in America were slaves.

California is now a free state, among 10 that give the same rights to gay couples, other married couples enjoy. We have a republic in America where democratic majorities cannot remove human rights from groups they do not understand, do not belong to, do not know about their lives.

Thank God the California Supreme Court upholds the Constitution and not your bible.