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Originally Posted by Hawkeye
1. The state court upheld the will of the people. That's a good thing.
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I agree. While I think gay people should be allowed to be married, there was an election and those opposed to it won. As long as it is determined that there is nothing illegal about the way the law was written it should stand.
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2. This is a great argument for PRIVATIZING marriage. This decision should be between 2 (or more) people, not between 2 people and the government bureaucrats. Remember, when you give the government the power to tax and regulate things, sometimes it comes back to bite you in the ass.
Will liberals learn this lesson? Or will liberals continue to demand increased regulatory power for the state?
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I also agree, but think you are a little bit off base here. It is the conservatives that want to regulate marriage. They are the ones who create these ballot measures and support them. They want to alter state constitutions to define marriage as being between 1 man and 1 women. Liberals want just the opposite. They either want the definition to be between 2 people or no definition at all. Conservatives are all for privatization or individual freedom until it involves something that they don't agree with then they quickly rush to control it.