Brain Fertilizer

Over at Q and O, McQ had this to say:

And by that I also mean government that stays out of the bedroom as well as out of the boardroom. So back off the marriage amendment nonsense. That’s something the people should decide at a much lower level. And they are.

Fair enough, and a good request. Except that in several states, the people had decided, and the courts still avoided democracy to impose SSM marriage on a largely unwilling populace. Okay, yeah, 11 states amended their constitution to ban SSM. We'll see if it works. If it does, President Bush will leave the Amendment to the US Constitution on the table. Heck, he'll probably leave it on the table, anyway, since the vote in the 11 states gives it more teeth as a threat to social activists to back off and stop using legal (i.e., non-democratic) means to impose SSM.

Just don't forget, President Bush had stayed out of it until the Massachussetts Supreme Court told the legislature to rewrite the state constitution according to the Mass SC dictates. He brandished the stick, the 11 state constitution amendments added some nails to the stick, and things should quiet down for a while.