if you're going to play the Democracy game, seaver, you have to take account of the information context. the information provided people is the basis for their decisions, and in an actual Democracy---which obviously the united states is not---everyone knows that the information available is important. so it can't be---o what's the word---bullshit? you know, the sort of bullshit that has people all freaked out, enough to see in, say, two people who love each other who happen to be gay wanting to avail themselves of the civil benefits of marriage and to affirm in that way their committment to each other and maybe raise a family---you know, who want to do pretty much the same thing breeder couples want to do when they get married---a "threat to the institution of marriage"....
one of the few things about the us system that keeps it floating over the cesspool of information that it is in **way** too many areas is that what is voted on has to be constitutional or it will be thrown out in court.
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