Democracy exists, at least in part, to mediate policy differences in the population that would otherwise result in violence. The Constitution exists ostensibly to enshrine the position that the will of the people is supreme and that we are a country of laws. It is unfortunate that those most at risk by the erosion of these two foundations, the democratic system under which we live and the Constitution which is enveloped by it, have chosen to attack the shelter provided by undercutting the notion of the will of the people.

I hope for their sake that they either grasp what they are doing before the damage is too great or that they remain entirely oblivious once the damage has been done.

They gave all this airtime to the NAZIS of our time, the Prop 8 Proponents. These people have committed wholesale hate crimes that never get published and if they had their way gay and lesbian Americans would be exterminated in concentration camps.

NPR is better than this. They shouldn’t become CNN or MSNBC who have both marginalized the rallies and lied about the size of them.