Here's Garrett Epps, in The American Prospect, describing the broader legal implications in the Ninth Circuit Court's decision to uphold the invalidation of Proposition 8: "It's always been this way" is the essence of Edmund Burke-style conservatism. Reason, Burke argued, is fallible; we shouldn't change traditional ways on such an uncertain basis. A wise society restricts even our best impulses: "the restraints on…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:18PM on February 12, 2012