California Supreme Court Set to Overturn the Will of the Voters (Again)?

One of the differences between the Left and the Right is our approach to problems. When liberals lose, they call people names, issue threats, march in the streets and assault people. They threaten the tax exempt status of churches which have the nerve to preach from the Bible. They try to intimidate businesses and get employees fired for the audacity of supporting causes with which the Left disagrees.

The Right is not like this. Before the election, there were claims that if Obama won, angry, white McCain supporters would riot, burning down businesses and possibly killing people (ok, I made that last part up, but the link about rioting was real). Of course, McCain supporters did not do this. They accepted the election results and, in fact, have stated that Obama is America's president, not just the Democrats'. There's a statement you've never heard from the left.

But if there was a situation that could induce angry protests, this just might do it.

The California Supreme Court agreed today to review legal challenges to Prop. 8, the voter initiative that restored a ban on same-sex marriage, but refused to permit gay weddings to resume pending a ruling...

Gay rights advocates argue that the measure was actually a constitutional revision, instead of a more limited amendment. A revision of the state Constitution can be placed before the voters only by a two-thirds vote of the Legislature or a constitutional convention.

Lawsuits to overturn the initiative contend it was a revision because it denied equal protection to a minority group and eviscerated a key constitutional guarantee. Supporters of Proposition 8 counter that it merely amended the constitution by restoring a traditional definition of marriage.

Crushing the will of the voters for the second time in a year would, quite possibly, cause the sort of uproar we're always warned that conservatives are guilty of. Frankly, I find it disgusting that the court seems to be so hellbent on defying democracy.