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From: TimF	10/26/2006 3:37:15 PM
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Violating the social compact Steven Den Beste I support gay marriage. And I'm glad to see that a lot of states are considering, or have already passed, amendments to their state constitutions forbidding gay marriage. My position isn't inconsistent, because there's a deeper issue involved. What is the function of an electoral system? You can argue about that all day, but it turns out that the deep purpose is to convince people to accept that they've lost. We, as citizens of a republic, have made a compact with each other that we will make certain decisions collectively through some combination of voting and representation, and we know that inevitably the process will make at least some decisions that we as individuals despise. But our compact with one another is that if the process was reasonably honest and if everyone participated, the losers will concede defeat. Of course, they may try to work within the system to change those decisions, and that has happened many times. But the compact is that such decisions change because the majority agree with the change, and the activist minority will work to convince the majority that change is needed, and will accept their defeat in the mean time... chicagoboyz.net

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