Dialog with a critic

Statement: You are a hypocrite. How can you be for smaller government and less regulation yet vote for prop. 8 that is forcing your morals down other people's throats?

Answer: The government, through four San Francisco justices on the California Supreme Court, has decided that the practice and legal definition of marriage can not be left to the people to define but must be defined by the government. Proposition 8 limits government from any further meddling in what predates natural law. It is not regulating the people, but blocking the government's interference in people's personal lives. This proposition takes the actual definition of marriage as it has always been known and gives it a legal status just the same as was done eight years ago. This proposition is limiting government power.

Statement: No, you are just trying to force your ancient morals on what we as an advanced society have progressed to become tolerant of.

Answer: Democracy can only exist where the society is moral (look at ancient Rome). There must be established morals commonly held by the people, otherwise laws have no meaning and war ensues. Yes, marriage is ancient, that is the whole point. Its definition has always been the same. To change marriage is to reconstruct familial relationships and deny not only what we see in nature, but some of the basic assumptions of Darwin.

to be continued...