[Night Stalker]

Nice dodge, and ignore.

For one thing America is NOT a democracy. Democracy, like Communism has never existed as a large scale government. Both are ideologies that have never existed. America is a tiered Representitive Republic. It was specifically structured in such a way so that mass will could be over turned when deemed ultimately detrimental to society. The arbitrating factor for basing the decision to over ride the will of the people as presented by the Legislature is the Constitution (State or Fed), which required overwhelming support of the people to be ratified, and can be modified by the people with overwelming support for change, but it is not over turned on subjective whim of radical judges.

They are not over riding the will of the people, they are forcing the people to conform to their own will - as expressed in the Constitution.

As for me being a despot, nay, Libertarian with increasing anarchistic tendancies, but not a despot. I try not to force my will on others, bit I fight back viciously when other try to force theirs on mine. But I'll ignore the jibe.

I agree that education is all empowering, but the People have been known to be very wrong through out history. 6 million Jews agree, millions of women in various Islamic Theocracies agree, Blacks in this country agree.

I see you avoided the Inter-racial arguement. Can you not come up with any ways that gay and inter-racial marriage are different other than sexual practices that justifies advocating legal discrimination? Or would you advocate resurecting the ban on inter-racial marriage just to keep "dem queers" out?

[ 02-28-2004, 12:23 AM: Message edited by: Night Stalker ]