majority rule or individual rights?

[cousinsal]

Originally Posted by my54ford

so then you all did not object to the courts decision to award mr. Bush his office????????

Since elections are not the job of the Courts, I did object. They should have recounted, and recounted, and recounted..........

Mr. Bush was not a "minority".

[my54ford]

OH.... I thought people said it was the job of the courts to overturn a vote of the people that other people did not agree with...........

[saganista]

The Constitution leaves elections as a state matter. The principal problem with Bush v Gore was the length to which the majority went to find a federal issue to begin with. In such matters the Court would normally show considerable deference to the state courts, but in that case, it chose simply to steamroller them.

[Tymberwulf]

Originally Posted by cousinsal

I'm gay and live in Massachusetts where we can marry. I'm curious - why does using the term "married" bug you?

I will be honest with you, I really don't know why it bugs me. It doesn't bother me that you are gay, it doesn't really bother me that you want to have the same rights as I do and chose to have a partner for life. But for some reason the words gay marriage bugs me. It is not rational, and I have no explanation for it, just like I have no explanation of why I fear ants, it is just the way I'm wired I guess.

In the end I think the laws will change and pretty much any human will be allowed to marry any other human. (Except family, that is just common sense as well as major eewww factor). I will learn to live with it I suppose.