Re:Thinking About Mozilla
by DangerousPie on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @09:27AM
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I am by no means a supporter of Prop 8, but while it did propose removing rights gained through a legal process, it did so through another legal process! Isn't that how democracy should work? You seem to be implying that any rights that have been ever been gained through a legal process should not be removable again, even if that process is legal too.
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My thought exactly. Argumentum ad absurdum (I don't mean it to be offensive) - abolition of slavery, too, "removed an already-existing right of certain persons".
As I said, I'm not comparing gay marriage to slavery here, but the idea that granting certain rights should be "forward-only" is bizarre to say the least.
It also added gave a lot of rights to another group, which Prop 8 didn't.
Re:Thinking About Mozilla
by ubernostrum on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @09:39AM
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Marriage is, as I have written, recognized in the United States as a fundamental right. If you believe those should be subjected to majority votes, I would be terrified to live in a society run by you.
The operative word here is less "legal process" and more "removing rights". Prop 8 was not about opposing a motion to make marriage available to homosexual couples but to remove the right to marriage they'd got.
And since prop 8 was struck down as unconstitutional, its enactment was quite clearly an illegal act.