On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:31:50 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> 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.

Absolutely.  But the court (rightly, IMNSHO) set them straight in ruling 
that they didn't have standing to sue over it.

Jim

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