The Democratic Process

I just finished reading the following article on Foxnews.com

 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,449024,00.html . It seems that there is some anger and frustration on the part of those California citizens who are in a same sex marriage or support that ideal.  Some of the more interesting comments:

 "They just took marriage away from 20,000 couples and made their children bastards," he said. "You don't do that and get away with it."

 and

 "The main focus is going to be going after the Utah brand," he said. "At this point, honestly, we're going to destroy the Utah brand. It is a hate state."

 That's just the two most notable comments from the article.

 And how about another article http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,448825,00.html  that relates this: 

 "Gay rights activists produced a commercial that portrayed Mormom missionaries rifling through the home of a lesbian couple and marching off with their rings and their marriage              licenses."  

Honestly...like something like that would ever happen. It's ridiculous. I challenge anyone to provide any type of credible evidence that anything like that was perpetrated. I know  they probably don't claim that it's based on an actual event (real or fabricated) but it's way the heck out there.

It's the democratic process. Part of the great thing about this country is being able to stand up for our moral convictions. The LDS church may have encouraged members to contribute their time and money to this effort, but I'll guarantee now that 99% of active church members already agreed with defining marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman. 

 

Truly, the real fact of the matter is that Californians voted their conscience. The church didn't put the same focus into the ballot initiatives in Florida and Arizona, but they failed too. Apparently a majority of people seem to agree that marriage should be defined as a relationship between a man and a woman. Just accept the results of the democratic process and move on. If you don't like those results, then keep a civil tongue and start working on your next initiative. As screwed up as things seem to be...if you keep trying long enough eventually you'll win.  The success of proposition 8, especially in a liberal state like California actually gave me some hope for the world.

I bet you believed in the democratic process and the voice of the people when Obama was elected president. You can't only be satisfied with the democratic process when it goes your way.