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Blacks and Gay Marriage

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Over at Hit & Run, I have a post looking at an unfortunate irony in last night’s exit polling.

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8 Responses to “Blacks and Gay Marriage”

  1. #1 |  Nando |  November 5th, 2008 at 3:16 pm

    So sad that these amendments passed (or at least the public’s desire to have the amendments).

  2. #2 |  tim |  November 5th, 2008 at 3:27 pm

    When its back on the ballot in two years – hopefully they will go back to old habits and stay home.

  3. #3 |  Zeb |  November 5th, 2008 at 3:38 pm

    I’m still surprised that it only takes a simple majority vote to change the constitution in CA.

  4. #4 |  Edmund Dantes |  November 5th, 2008 at 4:06 pm

    There’s a reason why the founders created the Congress the way they did. The House was supposed to be the populous hot house while the Senate was supposed to be where the cool deliberative process acted as a brake.

    Hell the Senate wasn’t even supposed to be a direct representative election. People forget it used to be an appointed position so in essence the people were twice removed from getting a Senator into office.

    It’s also why so much effort was put into making sure there were checks within the system to keep the majority from running roughshod over the minority.

    Not saying I agree or disagree on whether it was better, but direct simple majority rules democracy isn’t that far removed from anarchy.

  5. #5 |  lynch |  November 5th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

    Rush read this on the air during his third hour today. I LOL’d.

  6. #6 |  Mops |  November 5th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

    As a side note, Rush Limbaugh gleefully cited your reason.com post on his program today.

  7. #7 |  Mattocracy |  November 5th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    Wow. I don’t know how I feel when all the races of the country can get come together and hates gays uniformally. We got to have our first black president at the cost of further mistreatment of homosexuals.

    I wonder what would happen if you gave people this choice: We’re either going to legalize gay marriage or abortion across the board, but not both. Pick which one means more to you.

    I wonder how that would redraw the political demographics in this country?

  8. #8 |  Cynical In CA |  November 5th, 2008 at 4:49 pm

    The arithmetic of democracy:

    50 + 1 = 100

    and

    50 -1 = 0

    The law of unintended consequences is immutable.

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