Mudbarn Weblog

Assuming we defeat prop 8, what’s to keep it from showing up on every ballot from here to the end of time?
I can’t stand the idea of creating laws to define basic human rights, and I think it’s deplorable that people would use the legal system to impose their values system on other people who don’t share their viewpoint. But what sort of legal protection can we obtain from these impositions that cost us millions of dollars to defend?
The Declaration of Independence states that we claimed our independence from Britain to guarantee ourselves the “unalienable Rights” of “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness”. Since this Declaration was never codified into Law, it seems that it has become irrelevant in issues of Law. So it’s just a bunch of words scratched onto vellum that have no bearing on today’s reality?