Reply #20: Well, I agree that "tyranny of the majority" is wrong, and that it is .. [View All]

.. contrary to the principals upon which our political understandings are said to be based. But in fact, not only has "tyranny of the majority" been common enough in US history, a certain equally ugly "tyranny of the minority" has also been very common, in the form of Southern slavery (in which vastly outnumbered slave-holders brutally controlled large numbers of people) and in the form of anti-democratic elites limiting political expression by jailing unionists, free-love advocates and others.

The task, therefore, is to craft the political environment that prevents such "tyranny of the majority," for example, from preventing non-traditional couples from exercising the same rights as traditional couples.

In my OP, I am simply describing my reading of the political climate, which I expect will change only slowly, and I am suggesting a work-around. I do not claim it to be a perfect solution, and I certainly will not call you an idiot if you choose not to support it. Nor am I suggesting that I personally oppose non-traditional arrangements being called marriages.

As for what can be done, and what "just can not be done," I defer completely to Frederick Douglass: Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.