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Originally posted by Illumina Drathiran'ar:
I feel betrayed... There were so many votes that they weren't going to count for weeks. Now we'll never know.
And yet... on some level. I suspected this would happen. If Kerry won, Hillary wouldn't be able to run in '08.
It still depresses me. So does the gay marrriage/civil union debacle. I feel more than a little resentful and scornful towards those states that not only banned marriages, but civil unions as well.
In fact, why is it that they can amend state constitutions to BAN gay marriage but not ALLOW it? Can someone help me out? Am I missing something?
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Yes, Illum you are missing something
They can amend the State Constitutions to alow it,
BUT that was not what was happening. What was happening was the Courts and rouge elected officals were saying we are going to do it anyways, or we don't care that the duely elected legislators passed a law one way or another. The only way to stop the courts from doing that kind of thing was to admend the State Constitutions. We people of the US don't like our Courts legislating from the bench.
[ 11-03-2004, 01:37 PM: Message edited by: John D Harris ]