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Gay rights activists, angry over the passage of Proposition 8 in California have found new friends in their attempt to overthrow the democratic process and return rule to their leaders of choice, the judges of California.

As Paul Foy reports in his Associated Press article dated November 14, 2008, "Five civil rights groups asked California's highest court Friday to annul the ban on the grounds that Proposition 8 threatens the legal standing of all minority groups, not just gays.

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center and two other groups petitioned the state Supreme Court to prevent the change from taking effect."

It's interesting that the NAACP has gotten involved, considering the record number of Blacks who voted in favor of passing Prop 8. In effect, by filing a lawsuit against the proposition, they are saying that the NAACP "knows better" than the people whom it claims to represent.

The argument set forth in the NAACP lawsuit urges the court to step in and fix what the people voted for because Prop 8 could lead to undermine the rights of racial minorities.

The argument goes something like this: If the people can vote to pass Prop 8, then the people could vote to do anything they wanted to, including voting to take away civil rights.

Blatant Editorializing Follows

So the solution is to let the disgruntled rule over the will of the people? Do we allow the rule of the people to be overridden by the rule of a few attorneys and judges? Isn't the greater danger to abandon democracy and the republican principle of representation to hand authority to a panel of judges?

Worse, forty years after the turbulent sixties, haven't we learned that when the loud, the obnoxious, and the angry attempt to govern in protest that we don't create one nation, we don't form a more perfect union, rather we create a cultural, social, and racial divide that will end up forcing a breaking point.