Voting to Make People Equal? Like in Arkansas in the 1950s?

We have to remember that other than the very rare circumstance of a constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote in elections this country has never, ever given civil rights to those without power willingly.

Conservatives ask candidates for judicial office whether they will follow the law or make law. The reason they are asked this question is because conservatives want to make sure that we don't have another Brown versus Board of Education-type court ruling giving civil rights to unpopular minorities.

I nearly fainted when the Supreme Court said that the law criminalizing consentual sex between gay adults in Texas was unconstitutional in the 2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision.

Conservatives want to make sure that any time the opportunity to expand rights comes up it has to be democratically approved.

The problem with this is the majority naturally has to give up their superiority over the unpopular minority.

The majority never wants to give up power they never want to give up their perceived superiority.

That's why it's very difficult to win these elections that would result in making more people equal with one another.

Although in our history. The fact that people are equal under the law has yet to diminish anyone's power under the law. George W. Bush was equally president to Barack Obama. It is absurd to say that because a black man becomes president a white president is diminished.

It is equally stupid to believe it because two people of the same gender marry, people of the opposite sex are somehow diminished. No one has demonstrated how that is so.