{"id":1402,"date":"2012-11-27T07:26:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T12:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2012-11-27T07:26:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T12:26:38","slug":"a-strict-constitutionalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1402","title":{"rendered":"A Strict Constitutionalist&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MLMG043.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1403\" title=\"A Strict Constitutionalist\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MLMG043.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MLMG043.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MLMG043-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2012\/11\/MLMG043.jpg&amp;name=A Strict Constitutionalist...\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News<br \/>\n<\/em>November 25, 2012<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 2004, 59% of Michigan voters passed an amendment to the state constitution to ban gay marriage. Similar to the ballot proposals this year, I thought amending the constitution for this was a bad idea, and I drew some cartoons to that point. Some readers contacted me to tell me I was wrong. Most cited natural law and procreation and the history of marriage (at least as far as their recent memory) and an implied discomfort with two men kissing. But the closer argument for all was this: \u201cThis is what the people want. The majority rule. That\u2019s how democracies work, you know. Too bad for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eight years later, a <a title=\"ay marriage now gets support from majority of Michigan residents - MSU survey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2012\/11\/state_of_the_state_survey_majo.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michigan State University study <\/a>shows that 56% of Michigan voters now support gay marriage. This seems entirely plausible considering Maine, Maryland, and Washington state all passed popular vote measures to legalize gay marriage, and Minnesota turned down a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Soooo\u2026 do the people still decide?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News November 25, 2012 In 2004, 59% of Michigan voters passed an amendment to the state constitution to ban gay marriage. Similar to the ballot proposals this year, I thought amending the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlive-media-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}