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Being 70 years old and already having been governor two terms, why Jerry Brown thinks by playing both sides of the Prop 8 issue is going to help him in any future gubanatorial race is beyond me.

From the way I see it, the fact of the matter is the voters clarified the SSM issue raised by the majority of the court by putting in the amendment; it is now part of the constitution. Gay advocates are raising phony arguments that an amendment can't override a court decision regarding "civil rights." Uh, no, because slavery was legal in the United States and blacks were considered 3/5ths of a person until the U.S. Constitution was amended to overrule that. The courts HAD to uphold the new amendments. A court cannot repeal an amendment no matter what; voters have to submit another initiative to undo it. The idea it is a revision to something in the state constitution (which wasn't there at the time of the court ruling) is a red herring. WHERE was the argument before the election? And with all of the bellyaching by those against Prop 8 just hardens the other side's resolve. What is really driving the anti-8 protests is the fear that if SSM can't happen in California, it won't happen anywhere else in the country (excluding the court decisions in MA and CT). SSM advocates have seriously overreached, in my view.

Besides, there are so many more important issues than this, it's disgusting taxpayer money is being wasted on it.