Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth

in all seriousness, i am glad for gay people that they can get married.

also i think it's interesting how efficient it was for the supreme court to just rule that gay marriage is legal across the board vs trying to make it legal in each state individually through individual pieces of legislation which people could vote on.

i can almost guarantee you that if we had left this issue up to the populace of this country, we'd be fighting over it for the next couple decades to come.

which i think in a way helps to demonstrates my point that democracy is inefficient and clumsy and that autocratic rule has its perks, which westerners generally refuse to acknowledge out of some dogmatic dedication to the ideological baggage of the enlightenment