If we didn't allow courts to make unpopular decisions then abortion would still be illegal in most states and schools would have been segregated much longer than they were.
Its a stupid argument that it defeats democracy, because one of the reasons the Constitution is there in the first place is to prevent the tyranny of the majority against minorities. That is a fundamentally anti-democratic principle, but pretty much everyone in the country believes in adhering to the Constitution. The Constitution requires us to go against what the people want sometime. That is just how it is.
I am not saying that Prop. 8 should be overturned, but this argument is too simplistic.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
