Links, California same-sex marriage decision edition

[kate_nepveu]

Three quick comments I found interesting:

• Dahlia Lithwick on the difference between judicial activism and judging; also on how "when your citizens and/or their Legislature are racing around banning and legalizing the same thing at the same time, the will of the people is not necessarily the last word on what's constitutional."
• Kenji Yoshino on the

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[dsgood]

"Come the counter-revolution, you'll marry women AND LIKE THEM!"

In Minnesota, there are people who object as strongly to non-organic food -- though they don't claim to have God on their side. And they don't see themselves as having enough political clout to get non-organic food banned. Yet.

And then there's David Strom, who just as strongly opposes public transit and supports automobiles. Not out of Libertarian principles; he's proposed having governments buy cars for people who can't afford them.

[doire]

Have you seen this language log post. Just an analysis from the linguistic POV of one sentence from Corrigan's dissent.

I found it rather sobering.

[kate_nepveu]

Permanent link: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=165

I hadn't read any of the concurrences or dissents, for lack of time, so thanks for pointing that out.

[kalimac]

In answer to slacktivist's question, this sort of theology includes the presumption that it is correct and all contrary theologies are wrong, and that this can and should be enforced by majority rule.

[kate_nepveu]

(For those who don't click through, that's not his answer:

I don't think they quite really believe that everyone else can or should be compelled to act in accordance with our particular religious beliefs. I think, rather, that their unexplored assumption is that everyone else can be expected to live as though we all believed the same thing.

That's a peculiar expectation for a "peculiar people."
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