Calif. court to hear gay marriage ban challenge

Evidently California operates on a different plain than that set up by the U. S. Constitution. Amendments are Constitutionally supposed to be the final word. When supreme courts can abrogate an amendment...

If the California Supreme Court overturns a legally certified amendment to the California State Constitution such as Proposition 8, then democracy is dead in that state. Their elected leaders and the people might just as well run all their decisions by these new judicial potentates who clearly take the "Supreme" part of their court to mean that they and they alone are entitled to run society. I recommend the governor and legislators practice a technique long utilized by courtiers before every absolute ruler -- kow-towing. Judicial tyranny --- coming to a state and community near you; working every day to lessen the difference between our form of government and the People's Republic of China.

Obama has stated that the judicial system is not radical enough and he is going radicalized it. California helped vote the Obama in and also has Feinstein, Boxer and Pelosi. What do you expect? The new regulatory capture groups in Washington are lawyers, environmentalists and organized labor. Get used to judicial activism, jury shopping, higher gas prices, energy brownouts and higher salaries and benefits for teachers of self esteem students who rank 16 out of 30 globally in science and 23 out 30 globally in math (washington post). Get over it, there are four more years (at least) to go.

Isn't this is the same court that over-ruled a gay marriage ban (referendum) claiming the bad was unconstitutional? I thought when that happened the court said an amendment was the only way to ban gay marriage. If this amendment can be tossed, then the California constitution is as worthless as the democratic process in California.