On 4/14/2011 12:27, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:16:01 -0700, Darren New wrote:
>
>> The fundamental problem is that religious people have figured out that
>> they can complain that *other* people aren't religious in the same way
>> they are, and that's somehow harmful to them.
>
> Except that that didn't work in the appeal on Prop 8, as I understand it
> - didn't the court find that those who claimed that gay marriage harmed
> them didn't actually have standing to sue because they couldn't
> demonstrate how they were harmed?

Oh, it doesn't *always* work. But certainly it convinced a whole boatload of 
people that their own marriages were at risk due to gays still being allowed 
to marry.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Coding without comments is like
    driving without turn signals."

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