[Screaming_Gerbil]

... And I think one can support gay marriage or civil unions, and yet still be opposed to the process of this ruling. If people feel strongly enough about those issues, they should try to change people’s minds in their public lives, instead of supporting judicial activist decisions that set potentially dangerous precedents that can lead to a further erosion of democracy...

If they kept to the point of opposing activist judges that overturn the will of the people, they would have a winner.

Lots of people who don't care about or are even in favor of same sex marriage being legal understand that the majority of the people at the present time don't want it, and understand that using an activist judge to overturn a vote of the people is not a good thing.

They understand that these things can work both ways, and have to potential to be very dangerous down the road and could be applied in other situations, if government rules by the decisions of an appointed judge instead of the rule of law and the will of the people.

The Republicans should be able to craft a way of going against the judicial activism of the Proposition 8 ruling without looking like they want to force all the gays back in the closet. Isn't that what political strategists get paid the big bucks for?

[Qbert]

“The Republicans should be able to craft a way of going against the judicial activism of the Proposition 8 ruling without looking like they want to force all the gays back in the closet. Isn’t that what political strategists get paid the big bucks for?”

It really boggles the mind. Here they have an issue that an overwhelming majority of the people in a basically Blue State (including a huge percentage of black voters) is opposed to, and they roll over like the sorry losers that they are. Part of Ohio going voting Red in 2004 was issues on the ballot like this- Ken Blackwell understood this perfectly.

And who in the world is doing the Repub’s internal polling on this issue? They need to be fired ASAP.