Sacramento Bee columnist Bill Endicott recently published an op-ed piece on a group of California conservatives who are trying to revive the proposition that banned gay marriage. (Go to <http://www.sacbee.com/2013/08/22/5670688/yet-again-the-right-is-on-wrong.htm> to read the whole column.) Last week the California Supreme Court refused to hear arguments trying to revive that proposition.
Endicott pointed out that while “the wrong side of history” is a cliche, every significant advance in human rights in our history has faced opposition from conservatives, “from freeing the slaves to giving women the vote, to the minimum wage, child labor laws, Social Security, Medicare, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. The list goes on.”
The list does go on. Add to that list Obamacare and immigration reform.
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