PREDICTION: The Homophobic Radical Right Will Make New Proposition

[WeDidIt]

I'll bet anything these sneaky assed evil fuckers will now support an initiative requiring a supermajority of the electorate to amend the California constitution because it would take just as simple a majority vote to over turn proposition H8.

Watch for it.

And I bet some on the left will fall for it, too.

[konnichi wa]

1. Geez, don't give 'em ideas.

:mad:


j/k I know they've thought of it.

[Cronus Protagonist]

2. First off, though, they will seek to annul all existing homo-marriages

I think that's as safe a bet as there is out there.

[WeDidIt]

3. Only through the courts

They won't do that via ballot initiative. That would be overreaching and they know it.

[Cronus Protagonist]

4. They know it, but they'll try anyway

They can't allow such an "abomination" to stand, and you know it.

[ContinentalOp]

5. "And I bet some on the left will fall for it, too."

Yep, that's what's so maddening. There will be people on DU here defending the idea.

[WeDidIt]

6. And they'll use Prop H8 as their justification, too

"We can never allow that to happen again!"

Fuck, give us a chance to overtrun that fucker first, you nimrods!

[WeDidIt]

7. And it's already started on DU

:eyes:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5722733

[targetpractice]

8. I'm from NY, but it does seem like a good idea to me...

I'm gay, too... However, it doesn't seem right to allow the majority to vote on the rights of a minority... and it seems like CA can now take away any rights by a simple majority vote on a proposition to amend the constitution.

As a process that's broken.

Of course, I would be very sad if putting a supermajority process in place delayed obtaining equal marriage rights in California... but the system seems broken as is.

Why is it maddening that I think this way?