[Diddle E. Squat]

While infuriating, it is probably in the long run going to ironically be for the best. This will quickly illustrate to the American people, even the ones who don't pay attention, how easily our legislature and the will of the people is being overridden by a defacto judicial coup. Were this to be nipped in the bud by the high courts, most would just assume that the system once again in the end worked as designed.

It usually takes a big train wreck for the US population to react to a major deficiency.

[Jack Black]

In my experience almost no one except "us" is bothered by this. Even my mom, hardly a flaming liberal and certainly neither gay nor a gay sympathizer, doesn't see the harm in gay marraige. And is not outraged by the courts. Most of the sheeple have been well-conditioned by Dan Rather to view the courts as some sort of near-sacred preisthood that is always right. The Supreme Court is now open to question, due to Gore V. Bush, but even that is not really cause for too much concern to the sheeple.

I agree that Cali is a lost cause.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I sure hope you are right. But, as a case in point, look how many are apparently completely unaffected by 9-11 after 2+ years. It's all about "what can I get from the government" again.