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vacri on June 27, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules

>This issue has been stolen from the democratic process!

This reminds me of the Tea Party slogan "No Taxation Without Representation!", the chanters seeming to have forgotten that they have representation. An elected official who represents them. Just because the chanter wasn't in the voting bloc that won doesn't mean that democratic process wasn't followed...

humanrebar on June 27, 2015 [–]

But this was voted on many times. The Supreme Court ruled that the democratic process was unconstitutional in this case.

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