Free Republic

An epic battle played out on two levels at the California Supreme Court on March 5. On a surface level, attorneys fought over a technical issue of whether the Proposition 8 prohibition on gay marriage represented a revision or an amendment. On the deeper level, the question asked was whether there are any limits on the majority to impact the rights of the minority. It was a powerful argument - that the people of the State of California have the “raw power” to change the state constitution in any way that they please. Ken Starr, an esteemed advocate, may have...