Regardless of your views on Proposition 8, it should have resolved the meaning of marriage in California.  Certainly, the opponents of that proposition should be free to pursue its repeal according to the same process used to obtain its passage.  Yet, that is not what is occurring.  The last refuge of the despot in America is the courts.  The anti-8 forces are already mounting a legal attack designed to overturn the will of the people.  The principal argument that they have chosen, that Proposition 8 is a revision, not an amendment to the California Constitution and therefore had to be initiated by the legislature, not the electorate, would normally be laughable.  But the notion of objective judges is a fairy tale.  The only question is whether the California Supreme Court is bold enough to push its ideological agenda far enough to reverse the democratic process.  Today, the Conservative Democrat, otherwise known as a Republican in California, who occupies the Governor's mansion, has encourged the Court to do just that.  And it needs precious little encouragement.  Conservatives need to make their voices heard on this subject. This is another challenge to democracy.