There's surprisingly little chatter in the libertarian-conservative segment of the blogosphere about this:
About 70% of voters agreed to add this sentence to the Missouri Constitution: "To be valid and recognized in this state, a marriage shall exist only between a man and a woman."Are libertarians depressed? Are conservatives trying not to gloat? Or perhaps they expect one of the lawyers at The Volokh Conspiracy to tell us that the will of the voters is likely to be overturned by the Missouri Supreme Court or the U.S. Supreme Court.
We've heard from The Corner, but that's about it. Someone else say something.
UPDATES:
Stanley Kurtz at The Corner adds this:
Apparently, ...Democrats outnumbered Republicans at the polls. That makes the already dramatic 71 percent vote in favor of the Missouri marriage amendment all the more impressive. The Post-Dispatch also notes that gay marriage advocates outspent opponents, and launched a major television ad campaign to boot....In a post that predates the Missouri vote, the usually sensible Virginia Postrel opines that:
People support abortion rights out of fear. They support gay marriage out of love.A lot of "people" support abortion rights and gay marriage simply because it's the politically correct thing to do -- a litmus test of one's open-mindedness and liberality -- and a form of delayed adolescent rebellion against moldy reactionaries and religious fundamentalists.
