Posted by
Playful Walrus on Monday, February 09, 2009 6:06:23 PM
Adam Beneschan of Mission Viejo had a good letter to the Los Angeles Times about a recent opinion piece on making it more difficult to amend the California constitution:
The authors' point, that it should be harder for voters to amend the California Constitution, has merit -- as long as we also make it harder for judges to "amend" the Constitution too.
Essentially, that's what happened last May, when four justices decided that same-sex marriage suddenly became a basic constitutional right.
The California Marriage Amendment shouldn't even have been necessary. The court should have ruled that it was up to the people to set licensing requirements for marriage.