by Casual Writer

Created on: November 19, 2008   Last Updated: January 16, 2009

To put Proposition 8 on the ballot is un-American. Utterly and absolutely un-American. The United States of America is a REPUBLIC, and our Founding Fathers deliberately created a Republic (and make no mention of Democracy) to prevent what they call a Mobocracy. We are all minorities in a sense - be it a religious, racial, sexual, or intellectual minority - but our Constitution protects us in the pursuit life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Since Proposition 8 attempts to impose or suppress a Minority Group rights that would be a privilege only to the majority, it is by it's very existence un-American. This ballot measure is the result of a religion imposing it's views on homosexuality on the public. Whatever ones beliefs, our great Constitution protects the rights of all individuals and minorities as long as it does not interfere in the pursuit of life liberty and happiness of another.

Here is the definition of what our country stands for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_r...

Cons titutional Republics are a deliberate attempt to diminish the threat of mobocracy thereby protecting dissenting individuals and minority groups from the tyranny of the majority by placing theoretical checks on the power of the majority of the population.[1] The power of the majority of the people is checked by limiting that power to electing representatives who theoretically are required to govern within limits of overarching constitutional law rather than the popular vote having legislative power itself (even though such representatives are elected by said majority, creating a definitive conflicted interest).

John Adams defined a constitutional republic as "a government of laws, and not of men."[2] Also, the power of government officials is checked by allowing no single individual to hold executive, legislative and judicial powers. Instead these powers are separated into distinct branches that serve as a check and balance on each other. A constitutional republic is designed so that "no person or group [can] rise to absolute power."[3]

Here's more food for thought:

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine - Thomas Jefferson

- Benjamin Franklin

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide - John Adams

The known propensity

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