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Chilling On Marriage

By The Daily Dish
May 21 2008, 12:51 PM ET

E.J. Graff tells the liberal punditocracy to cool it on their hand-wringing over California's court decision. I have to say there has been an irritating amount of griping. Money quote:

This year, smart Democrats should stress that: (a) California judges are elected, and thus democratically accountable; (b) the elected legislature has twice passed a marriage equality bill, which Arnold vetoed--saying the courts should decide, as they now have; and (c) the California justices, like everyone else in the California political system, knew perfectly well that voters will get the final word this fall. This is hardly a rogue decision from an unaccountable court.

I'm not a pollyanna. Yes, there will be some backlash, although I honestly think it will be far less than some imagine. Human beings just can't stay hysterical about the same nonexistent threat forever. But could the liberal intelligentsia at least pretend, for a minute or two, to be glad that I am now a full citizen in two whole American states?



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