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Skriven 2009-05-08 16:17:53 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
   Kommentar till text 6097 av Dan Ceppa (1:138/666.0)
Ärende: Card, "Joe the Plumber and a bimbo
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Dan Ceppa -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 ->> On 07 May 09  09:01:58, Ed Hulett got back to Dan Ceppa
 ->> Re: Card, "Joe the Plumber and a bimbo

 EH>>> he has any hatred for anyone. His opposition to "gay" marriage
 DC> doesn't
 EH>>> mean he hates gays.

 DC>> You're blinded, Ed.  Card's own words do him in.

 EH>> Your own words have done you in on a continuous basis.

 DC> With regard to the acceptance of legal same-sex marriage in Massachusetts
and
 DC> California, Card writes that "The first and greatest threat from court
 DC> decisions in California and Massachusetts, giving legal recognition to
"gay
 DC> marriage," is that it marks the end of democracy in America.  These
 DC> judges are making new law without any democratic process; in fact, their
decisions are
 DC> striking down laws enacted by majority vote."

You don't find it alarming that judges are trying to legislate from the bench?
Do the ends justify the means in your mind?

What if the USSC decided that the First Amendment doesn't protect atheists?
Would you be so glib about how the Judicial being a branch of government allows
them to make law? Would you demand that they have no right to legislate form
the bench? Or would you shrug your shoulders and accept it?

[25] and asserts "How long before
 DC> married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has
only
 DC> one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal
 DC> enemy.  I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can
be
 DC> replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and
help me
 DC> raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their
turn."[26]

What would you say if your way of life, the very fabric of your beliefs was
threatened by judicial fiat? Would you act to destroy a government that allowed
appointed judges to make law? Or would you meekly accept that your voice
doesn't matter -- that your vote and the vote of your elected representatives
in government have no sway?

Ed

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