GOODRIDGE AND THE BAIT AND SWITCH: Eve

It took me a while to figure out where I stood on same-sex marriage. But well before that, I knew this wasn't the way I wanted it to happen--with courts telling us what the laws our representatives voted for "really meant." This strikes me as a classic bait-and-switch: The people who vote for the legislation are reassured over and over that SSM (or whatever--this is hardly an issue unique to marriage) will not result. They vote, trusting in the people who have reassured them as to what their votes mean. Then, years later, the robed watchmen of the court system tell them what they really voted for--something they likely never would have approved, if they'd had the chance.

How empowering!
posted by Eve at 11:46 PM VOTE

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