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In an article discussing the dismall results of 11 state ballot initiatives to ban same sex marriage, I found the following quote of a quote to be quote-worthy:

Foreman said the outcome showed it is “profoundly wrong to put basic human rights up for a popular vote.” More than 200 years after the drafting of the U.S. Constitution, he said, “I don’t think we could win the freedoms of assembly, speech, religion or the press in most states at the ballot box — let alone desegregated schools, the freedom to marry people of another race, or access to contraception.”

In my perfect world opinions like this would be purely academic since basic freedoms such as the ability to demonstrate your love and committment to your significant other would be a given.