Thursday, November 20, 2008
Unfortunately for the letter to the editor writer of “Why is Proposition 8 being protested?” Nov. 19, the United States is precisely not a nation that prides itself on being a democracy. We are a republic; “and to the republic for which it stands”. The fact that Obama won the popular vote really means nothing. What mattered was that he won the electoral vote.
There is still a difference between protesting the presidential election and protesting the vote on Proposition 8 in California. To protest the election would indeed be to protest wrongly. It would be to disagree with the fact that Obama won even though he did so, fair and square. But those who are protesting Prop 8 are not protesting the fact that the “ayes have it.” They are protesting the fact that there was even a vote at all.
We do not live in a country run by mob rule. We cannot vote over what people should and should not have the right to do. There was a time when the majority would have voted that blacks should not have the right to vote.
Even so, it would be absurd to say they should not have had that right at that time.
But according to the writer’s reasoning, protesting such a vote would be folly, for it would be tantamount to protesting his beloved “democracy.”
I would protest such a vote, just as I protest the vote on Prop 8. I would be protesting democracy. But it is a fanciful fact that we do not live in one.
Otherwise, the mob would rule, and you might find that you just lost your right to vote or perhaps to marry the one you loved dearly.
— — Lamar Hunt is a junior from Overland Park.
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Letter: Mob rule should not decide rights of all
Way not to address any of Mr. Hunt's main points at all, vladislav.
Letter: Mob rule should not decide rights of all
They are protesting the fact that in California same-sex marriages were legal, and then after Prop. 8 passed that right was taken away. That's the first time in history a legal right (and fundamental right) was taken away and put into law. That is what was so horrible about this specific democratic vote.
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