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<blockquote data-quote="guns are dumb" data-source="post: 1319412" data-attributes="member: 5564">What you are suggesting is democratic rule instead of republican rule.&nbsp; Our country was founded as a republic to ensure that the beliefs of the majority doesn&#039;t overrule the rights of the few.Whether it is your moral belief that Proposition 8 should stand as voted is irrelevant to the fact that this country was founded on giving all men and women equal rights, and some men and women still do not have equal rights.&nbsp; It is within our country&#039;s checks and balances system, the way it was designed 200 years ago, to have a judge overrule a vote even if it is an unpopular decision.Please understand, I&#039;m not suggesting that gay marriage is moral or immoral (I&#039;ll leave my personal beliefs out of this), I&#039;m saying it doesn&#039;t matter, according to our founders and if we extend some rights to one group without extending those to the other, we are in fact guilty of the same evil they sought to escape by leaving Europe.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="guns are dumb, post: 1319412, member: 5564"] What you are suggesting is democratic rule instead of republican rule. Our country was founded as a republic to ensure that the beliefs of the majority doesn't overrule the rights of the few. Whether it is your [I]moral belief[/I] that Proposition 8 should stand as voted is irrelevant to the fact that this country was founded on giving [I]all[/I] men and women equal rights, and some men and women still do not have equal rights. It is within our country's checks and balances system, the way it was designed 200 years ago, to have a judge overrule a vote even if it is an unpopular decision. Please understand, I'm not suggesting that gay marriage is moral or immoral (I'll leave my personal beliefs out of this), I'm saying it doesn't matter, according to our founders and if we extend some rights to one group without extending those to the other, we are in fact guilty of the same evil they sought to escape by leaving Europe. [/QUOTE]

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