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**djaburg** · 05-26-2009, 04:35 PM

Well using that logic we can say that the majority cannot determine what becomes law in this country, because that would be unfair to the people that don't agree with the law. I think it is more analogous to say that the people in CA have drawn a line with respect to their values. And yes I've heard the arguments before that it's not "fair" or "right" to impose one persons values on another, but I don't entirely agree. This nation was founded on the premise that the people would determine what they felt was in their best interest and would enact laws to protect that. That's what appears to have happened in this case. I've also heard that voting against gay marriage makes you hateful or bigoted or ignorant. I don't see it that way at all. I see it as they are voting based on their beliefs, and others are voting based on theirs, and isn't that what democracy is all about?

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djaburg TSF Enthusiast Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 1,322 OS: XP SP3/Vista/7 Server 2K/2K3/2K8	Re: Proposition 8 Well using that logic we can say that the majority cannot determine what becomes law in this country, because that would be unfair to the people that don't agree with the law. I think it is more analogous to say that the people in CA have drawn a line with respect to their values. And yes I've heard the arguments before that it's not "fair" or "right" to impose one persons values on another, but I don't entirely agree. This nation was founded on the premise that the people would determine what they felt was in their best interest and would enact laws to protect that. That's what appears to have happened in this case. I've also heard that voting against gay marriage makes you hateful or bigoted or ignorant. I don't see it that way at all. I see it as they are voting based on their beliefs, and others are voting based on theirs, and isn't that what democracy is all about? __________________ Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery. Last edited by djaburg; 05-26-2009 at 04:37 PM.