I would be willing to grant that Prop 8 might violate the Establishment Clause on these grounds if you're willing to concede that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 suffers from the same problem. (No, I don't actually think it should apply in either case...)
Basically, proponents of gay marriage need to stop trying to find a short cut and actually get a legislature or an electorate to vote for this. They likely will someday, but things like this and the 'revision vs. amendment' thing are just distracting from doing it properly. Yes, the process is important.
Like it or not, the Prop 8 guys actually did it right: spend the ground time getting all the needed signatures, get your prop on the ballot and then run a good campaign to get people to support your view.
There's been a push on the left since the 50's to not bother with the democratic process and to take things through the courts. Sometimes this has ended OK, but oft times is just makes the entire thing worse (for instance, abortion). If you can't even get a majority in the most permissive State in the Union and easily the most liberal President(-elect) we've had in the last 40 years is against you, you haven't done near enough of the hard legwork yet.
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Basically, proponents of gay marriage need to stop trying to find a short cut and actually get a legislature or an electorate to vote for this. They likely will someday, but things like this and the 'revision vs. amendment' thing are just distracting from doing it properly. Yes, the process is important.
Like it or not, the Prop 8 guys actually did it right: spend the ground time getting all the needed signatures, get your prop on the ballot and then run a good campaign to get people to support your view.
There's been a push on the left since the 50's to not bother with the democratic process and to take things through the courts. Sometimes this has ended OK, but oft times is just makes the entire thing worse (for instance, abortion). If you can't even get a majority in the most permissive State in the Union and easily the most liberal President(-elect) we've had in the last 40 years is against you, you haven't done near enough of the hard legwork yet.