So the Mass. Supreme Court "clarified" things for the legislature, explaining that no, no, silly politicians, you cannot get around the ruling from last fall, you must allow gay marriage. And, as per normal, the government's reaction was to essentially freak out. Not proper legal jargon, but a most appropriate phrase. Which brings me to my point. Why, exactly, does everyone care so much? The newspapers here are filled with talk of constitutional amendments, and "activist" judges. Personally? I say thank you activist judges. Thank you for doing what we haven't done. Although everyone keeps acting like these "activist" judges are a new phenomina. But our country's history is full of activist judges. Remember those wacky judges in Brown v. Board of Education? Or those crazy judges who ruled in Roe v. Wade? Or, more recently, the justices in the Texas sodomy case? In each case, the justices saw something very important in the case: that a voting minority was being deprived its basic rights under the constitution. African Americans being deprived equal rights, women being allowed to have some control of their bodies, and the right for all, including homosexuals, to have sexual relations to other consenting adults in the privacy of their own home. I don't quite understand why people act like this is such a radical idea. For anyone really against the work of the "activist" judge, I pose to you this question: if the tables were turned, and you were the one being deprived of a right everyone else got to have, wouldn't you be thanking those activist judges? Yeah, I would be too...