Andrew Pugno – Defender of Hypocracy

*Andrew Pugno, a lawyer for Protect Marriage, the group that came up with Proposition 8, said he believed the issue was over when Californians went to the polls.  “Seven million Californians voted to preserve or restore what marriage has meant since the beginning of time,” he said. “If they’re not permitted to do something as basic as that, then there’s something, really wrong with our system.”

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That’s right Mr. Pugno, there is something really wrong….

A majority of Californians being allowed to vote away the rights of a minority of Californians is “tyranny of the majority”** and it is WRONG

In fact there are specific protections against majorities built into our constitution by our founding fathers.  It is why we have a Constitutional College, and a Bill of Rights, to protect small states from from big states, to protect the rights of individuals from governments and mob rule.

A US lawyer who thinks marriage has meant any one thing to any one society since the beginning of time, and that it should not change as society changes,  is not getting that opinion from the scientific or academic communities, he is taking it from a narrow reading of bible, and applying a fundamentalist view to US law, which is WRONG.

Because by that logic then we should expect Mr. Pugno to also advocate the return of dowries – fathers selling their prepubescent daughters to the husband of his choice, because certainly that is truer to the condition of “marriage since the beginning of time” then our modern-western-romantic notions of a ‘woman’s choice’ and ‘falling in love’.  Age requirements should also be removed from US marital law, that should be left to the father of the bride, as well, the signing of any license or contract should also be left to the father of the bride.  All teen age girls should have to pray for her fathers mercy in picking her lifelong mate, because divorce is certainly not allowed “since the beginning of time”.

Right Mr. Pugno?

Seems to me that changing the progressive change of course of marriage now, to “restore what marriage has meant since the beginning of time” to Mr. Pugno, will not only destroy the meaning of modern marriage, but also the life’s work and livelihood of his professional colleagues.

There is big money in divorce law Mr. Pugno.  But I suppose hypocrisy has its price.

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* from – http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/18/prop.8.implications/index.html?hpt=T2, Will Prop 8 ruling have an impact on other states?
By Ed Hornick, CNN

** from – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority