A mistake

What the fuck? Why didn't this happen before Proposition 8 even got onto the November 4th ballot to voters? Such a fool.

Brown Asks Court to Overturn Prop 8
By Justin Ewers

SAN FRANCISCO--Supporters of Proposition 8, the California initiative that eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry last month, reacted with surprise and dismay this weekend to the announcement by the state's attorney general that he had reversed his position and would ask California's high court to invalidate the measure.

Jerry Brown, the state's attorney general--and a leading candidate to replace Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor in two years--filed papers on Friday asking the state Supreme Court to overturn Proposition 8, which amends the state's Constitution to define marriage as only between a man and a woman.

The decision is a major reversal for Brown, whose office argued against same-sex marriage in the spring, only to see the Supreme Court find a law banning gay marriage unconstitutional. After last month's election, in which 52 percent of voters effectively reinstated that law by supporting Proposition 8, Brown again said he would support the will of the people.

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This reminds me of the saying: "it's better to ask forgivenss than permission." That's shit. It's NOT better to ask forgiveness than permission.

Asking for forgiveness, like the attorney general's request to overturn the ban, acknowledges a mistake. Asking permission, like having the Supreme Court rule that taking civil rights to the voters should never happen, acknowledges the rule in place and the status quo; the rule and law that it is not constitutional for a public majority vote to determine the fate of citizens' civil rights.

I am livid. I am pissed that he changed his position AFTER the fact. I'd rather him just support his original stance against gay marriage than to now to flip flop and support gay marriage. What a hypocrite.