Gregg Ferry of Encinitas wrote:
This issue is not about gay rights.
You got that right. By the way, I am in favor of more rights for homosexual people than most groups that claim to fight for their rights. That is because I support the rights of all individuals, including the freedom of association, rather than expanding and centralizing government powers.
It's about who represents me in the courts. I do not want anyone to say that they represent me without my permission.
Whether I agree or not with the actions of the governor or the state attorney general, who have declined to defend Proposition 8, I have given them my permission. I have not given permission to the backers of Proposition 8; they do not represent me.
Well, you see, Proposition 8 was passed by a majority of vote. I can say Governor Brown doesn't represent me, but he was elected the same way. If we're going to have an initiative process, who else should be allowed to defend an adopted-and-now-challenged ballot measure than the sponsors? Opponents of ballot initiatives usually point out the sponsors, and who the sponsors are is information easily accessed by voters.
I should note that I didn't vote to seat any of the judges that have tried to neuter my state's marriage licenses - which are issued on my behalf - against my will.
ProtectMarriage.com shouldn't have to defend the duly adopted constitutional amendment, but here we are. Nobody should have to defend it, but here we are. We shouldn't have needed to adopt such an amendment in the first place, but here we are. We're not going to just roll over and die because a tiny-but-noisy group willing to use any and every tactic wants to foist a radical change on all of society.
You may also be interested in my analysis of the paper's editorial on tax-funded school computers having filtering software that blocks, among other things, homosexuality advocacy websites. It is over at my namesake blog.
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