Letters to the Editor
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Here's an idea...
You want to get equal rights, including Gay Marriage?
That's easy, you get yourself an "activist" supreme court with the proper inclinations and hey presto, denying gays the right to marry becomes discriminatory and therefore unconstitutional :)
(actually I'm being slightly facetious, but that is how Canada did it, no politician would touch it with a 20 foot pole. Private citizens brought the issue before the Court, they declared it discriminatory, and it became de facto legal. Some provinces try to pass laws banning it, but those will be challenged and shot down as unconstitutional)
What I'm trying to say in a rrrrealllly roundabout way is that the naming of Supreme Court Justices is of paramount importance, something that should give the "if my candidate loses, I'm voting McCain" crowd reason to pause.