Kirata
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Joined: 2/11/2006 From: USA Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: HunterS There are about 33 million people in California. Of the 11 million who did vote the margin of victory for prop. 8 was about a half million. About a third of the people have actually spoken and 1/66 of the people is hardly a mandate for anything. Common' dude I have read a lot of your posts and you are way smarter than that. Even if there was a mandate, in my opinion there would still be a problem. When the democratic process is limited by the principle that citizens should be free to do what they want so long as they cause no harm to their fellows (or debate a better wording), this and a host of other issues become academic. You can marry who you want. It's called, unh, you know, a free country. K.
< Message edited by Kirata -- 11/5/2008 6:17:38 PM >
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