Regarding "let the people decide about gay marriage," this must be pointed out

[jmowreader]

"The people" have fought every civil rights advance in our nation's history. You name it, and The People have been against it, regardless of what it is.

Do you realize before Truman integrated the military, people claimed black men didn't belong in the Navy because they couldn't swim? Or before the Tuskeegee Airmen, blacks couldn't fly planes because the African eye stops working at night? I know: "jmo, you're fucking kidding me." I wish I was. People really thought these things.

The only way anyone's ever gotten civil rights is for those rights to be forced upon an unwilling public. Five years later, most people forget there was a problem.

[Skittles]

1. "let the people / states decide" is dog whistling

letting the most bigoted / racist state folk know they are willing to deny civil rights to THOSE PEOPLE as long as possible

[Myrina]

2. one could Also propose

That there be panels of "elders" who get to decide om whether particular hetero couples can marry. If indeed "the people" should be allowed to decide.

[etherealtruth]

3. Unfortunately, I am very fearful that this supreme court backs the idea ...

... of voters having the ability to "vote away" the rights of others.

I look at the decision in the U of M(ichigan) affirmative action ruling where the court appeared (to my non-legal scholar) mind to back just that.