Name: J. H. Lincoln 2006-07-14 15:56
Why is it that the current "administration" always says that it's just "doing the people's will" or "going with the people" when it tries to push through gay marriage bans?
The people shouldn't be allowed to choose what rights other people can have. Everybody should have the same rights automatically. If the people of Alabama had been allowed to choose whether or not blacks got equal civil rights with whites in the 1950s and 1960s, would they have?
If the people are allowed to pick and choose what rights each little minority group gets, what would our nation be but glorified mob rule? There IS a reason the Founding Fathers made us a republic, and not a direct democracy, after all.
The people shouldn't be allowed to choose what rights other people can have. Everybody should have the same rights automatically. If the people of Alabama had been allowed to choose whether or not blacks got equal civil rights with whites in the 1950s and 1960s, would they have?
If the people are allowed to pick and choose what rights each little minority group gets, what would our nation be but glorified mob rule? There IS a reason the Founding Fathers made us a republic, and not a direct democracy, after all.