Ethics

Cheering Patterico

By Ed Brayton

Patterico is an assistant district attorney in Los Angeles and a conservative. He and I have debated legal issues in the past, always respectfully even when we disagree. Today I want to applaud him for voting no on Prop 8 in California. He writes:

I am angry about the California Supreme Court's attempt to take this matter out of voters' hands, and part of me wants to support the measure just to flip the bird to the justices. Ultimately, however, I support the right of homosexuals to marry one another, and so I will be voting no.

Here is what he wrote in an earlier post:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on November 04, 2008 (boomark / email).