Real democracy versus majority rule

When the Hartford Public Library hosted a debate on the right wing’s call for a constitutional convention, the newly-formed Connecticut Civil Rights Defense Coalition was there with a lively picket line outside urging people to vote No. It was there that I heard from one of the supporters of the constitutional convention . . . actually we heard from her several times as she passed our picket.

On one of her passes she hollered out the essence of the real Vote Yes agenda: “You can have same sex marriage if the majority vote for it!” [continued at Two Good Hands]