December 2008
Politics … we give up! After two years of 24 hour political festivities, the tortured election season is finally history. Majority rules is the cry of our democracy. Yet this principle does have a corresponding downside. We all can remember a time when black men suffered under minority status, miraculously we are maturing as a nation.
The same is true to some degree of women, the economic underclass, the unborn, any other racial minority and the gay community. Our history is replete with the struggle between majority rule and its dictates to minorities. When injustice occurs the federal courts are authorized to be the equalizer by the constitution’s promise of “justice for all”.
The Supreme Court is the final arbiter of justice in America even though it is an unfinished process. That brings us to PROP 8, the proposed clarification of California’s constitution to limit the legal definition of marriage to heterosexual relationships. This proposition should have been rejected because we are more than just a majority rule state, we are also American.
Uncomfortable as this may be to the moral majority, this proposition’s final fate is sealed within our U. S. Constitution.
G. Goslaw
Victorville, Ca. 92395
