Homosexual Marriage

[lord_carbo]

Originally Posted by devonin

You live in a democracy. Popular opinion is -supposed- to determine these things.

The founding fathers didn't trust the people of America to make completely rational decisions and neither do I. Instead, we have people who represent us make the decisions. They represent our general intelligence (many are stupid, most are pretty average, and only a few are intelligent), our general bias towards making decisions. They are otherwise normal people who spend more time on the issues than we do. I mean, Congressmen aren't evil monsters from another dimension because they're corrupt, in fact, their corruptness as a result of so much power shows how ordinary most of them are.

Oh, sorry, a bit of a tirade there. I just wanted to say something like that for the longest of time, and your post was an excuse to do so