Re: Brown asks justices to toss Prop. 8 and Letters, Prop. 8 pain, Aftermath of a donation
Editorials, commentary and letters make it abundantly clear that the Los Angeles Times joins gay/lesbian activists' efforts to intimidate anyone who supported or voted for Proposition 8.
Worse, California Attorney General Jerry Brown has allowed his personal opposition to Proposition 8 to betray his promise and abdicate his Attorney General responsibility to defend Proposition 8, by joining an absurd legal action to have the California Supreme Court overturn the will of the people, again.
Indeed, Brown's filing to overturn the constitutional amendment reaffirming the definition of marriage is even more absurd. Same sex marriage is certainly not a constitutional "inalienable right" by any definition. Thus, Brown's assertion that it is, and that the "tyranny of the majority" used the ballot box to take away that right, is simply wrong.
Tyranny of the majority in this case is nonsense. Tyranny of the minority is real. The only tyranny going on here -- as it has been with extreme environmental and racial activists -- is the selfish interest tyrannies of minority groups and activist judges wrongly jerking around the majority and violating their rights by intimidation, and the malicious use and abuse of the courts. The only tyranny of the majority being exercised in California is in government dominated by Democrats, yet the majority of voters are Democrats, many of whom favored and passed Proposition 8.
If anything, considering the gross failure of government in our state, the majority of voters ought to recall the attorney general, the governor and the majority of legislators responsible for turning California gold into fool's gold. Reject confirmation of activist supreme court justices and appellate court judges in the next general election. And pass a constitutional amendment to reform government by electing nonpartisan professional government manager representatives instead of partisan politicians, with voting networks for more direct democracy to instruct our elected representatives regarding all matters of taxation and public policy.