Kathy -- I don't see how what you've written in any way contradicts, or indeed relates, to anything I've written. My point was about a flaw in "democracy". And beyond that, a flaw in the unsupported belief that "democracy" as such always yields correct results and is inherently to be fostered everywhere willy-nilly; and my I-think-substantiated opinion that use of the word as some sort of shibboleth is fraught with perilous error. Not a word about the US Constitution or theocracy anywhere in any of what I wrote. I'd think that someone as bothered by CA Prop 8 as you have been would get my meaning pretty clearly. But maybe not.

Happy Easter, anyway. --MMB