Sorry, there are certain things that are not up for any government or "majority" to decide, but I thought we all agreed with that here on FR. I guess not. As long as you got the votes, it's cool.
And this kind of mentallity that is demonstarted time and time again is baffling to me. I continuously hear and see people who claim to be conservatives say and write things like "This contry continues to become a cesspool" or "We keep going further down the path to destruction", but continue to argue for a democracy. It seems that they are oblivious to the fact that if this county is in deed becomming what they say, then in the near future, these "conservatives" will not be "the majority". So instead of leaving people alone to determine what private, peacefull activities they will engage in, these "conservatives" keep insisting "majority rules" when its going to come back and bite them in the arse sooner or later.
What's also depressing is that bright and knowledgeable people will seriously argue that a right does not exist if it doesn't appear in the Bill of Rights. Then no one will answer what the 9th Amendment covers when I ask. Nor do they seem to recall much of what Hamilton and other said about the BoR not being meant to grant ANY government the authority to intrude on certain areas of life.
We had one praising Scalia's dissent in the Griswold case, which was a law prohibiting(or was it merely regulating) the use of contraception between a married man and his wife. And CONSERVATIVES will support these kinds of laws, simply because one group of idiots elects another?
Way to go defenders of liberty! lol