WHOOPS! Gary Bauer calls the California Supreme Court "unelected radicals", WRONG!

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Indeed, the Right emphasized this “activist judges” angle in this case; Gary Bauer, attacking the “four unelected robed radicals,” wrote:

"It was an egregious exercise in judicial activism – of judges wielding raw political power to redefine our most basic values. But that is how the Left has succeeded. It cannot achieve its goals through the democratic process via the elected legislatures, so it ignores the people and goes to the courts, where it relies on political activists cloaked in black who answer to no one. The Left succeeds by using the most undemocratic methods possible."

Of course, Bauer may not realize that, while appointed at first, justices on California’s Supreme Court face voters at the next general election; each of the justices in the majority for this case has been retained by voters at least once. Bauer is probably aware, though, that the “elected legislature” in California passed marriage equality in 2005 and 2007, only to have it vetoed both times by Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2008/05/right_attacks_c.html