We are in our second day of inhaling all the recent political movements. While 99% of the attention is being paid to the Obama campaign and the pending transition in the White House, there was another vote that I think was just as important.
The citizens of California voted to define marriage only between man and woman. The citizens voted. THE CITIZENS VOTED. Now, opponents of Prop 8 are protesting in the streets and filing lawsuits challening the results. The L.A. Times reports that three seperate lawsuits were filed a day after the election asking the California Supreme Court to overturn the results, in effect, negating the will of the voters. The lawsuits were filed by the ACLU (surprise there), National Center for Lesbian Rights and Lambda Legal. Suits were also filed by Santa Clara County, the city of San Francisco, and a private attorney on behalf of a married lesbian couple.
Without going volcanic, I'm really at a loss for words. The democratic process overturned a judges ruling on this issue that I believe he had no business ruling on in the first place. The people have proclaimed how marriage should be defined. And unhappy with the results, gay marriage proponents are asking judges whom they support to overturn the peoples vote. How UN-Democratic.
