PredFan
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Our founding fathers designed this Republic to be run on the Rule of Law, not the Rule of Man. In fact the founding fathers detested the label Democrat, and the whole idea of Democracy. Simply going by whatever a majority of the voters wanted was a bad idea in their eyes. Think about two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. THAT is the Rule of Man.
Our country is and should be a country based on the Rule of Law. This brings me to Proposition 8.
The people voted essentially to ban Gay Marriage (Rule of Man), the judge, in a rare moment of sanity from this guy, shot it down because of the Rule of Law.
I hear this kind of thing from both the left and the right. "The people want this, and the people want that!" That isn't how this country was founded
I have a whole lot of issues with the whole Gay Marriage debate, and probably that's for another thread, and I don't like the way each side is acting on this issue, but I ALWAYS revert to the founding fathers on issues and even if I don't like the result, their logic is sopund and has worked for almost 250 years.
The founders did NOT hate democracy
You are wrong. They despised it. To be called a democrat (Not to be confused with the democrat Party, which didn't exist then) was an insult. The whole Idea that a majority could vote away the rights and liberties of a minority was appalling to them. They would have been appalled at Prop 8. Educate yourself.