Pics from their "gathering of friends."
Ok, it's a bit of a cheap shot, but I've been provoked by a friends claim that "at least the Governator won't make me sit in the back of the bus." I didn't understand much from Dean Eisler's contracts class, but I vaguely remember that silence is consent. Or was that Criminal Law? Regardless, I couldn't let this go by without comment.
Following up on this theme about the bus. I saw on Brit Hume tonight Democratic strategist Pat Caddel. He said that his research shows that with respect to these gay marriage amendments, over half of the Kerry voters voted in favor of them, including in Oregon where 57% of Kerry's supporters voted for the amendment. So he said the passage of these amendments was not about bigotry and the Democrats are stupid for calling their own supporters bigots. Caddel said, and I tend to agree, that these amendments are a reflection of democracy or an effort to preserve democracy, because people don't want gay marriage foisted on them by another state's supreme court, i.e., Massachusetts, because of the power of the full faith and credit clause. In other words, people want to have a say in this process. Very insightful and accurate I thought.
ReplyDeleteBTW - I don't think silence is consent, although I think under the rules of evidence, evidence of silence where one would expect the person to object can be admitted as an admission against interest.
I told you I never really understood what was going on in that class (Contracts, not Evidence. At least in Evidence class, I knew what was going on 30% of the time.)
ReplyDeleteAs you well know, I like to think there's a subtle perfection to everything that I do.