Quoting approvingly from the New York Times, Sheila Kennedy, in her Nov. 24 column, "Gay marriage falls in defeat, people rise up to protest," writes that if not for "the extraordinary role Mormons played in helping to pass it (Proposition 8) with money, institutional support and dedicated volunteers" the proposition would not have passed. Putting aside the snide title of the column, as if it was not the people who approved the proposition, substitute Barack Obama for Mormons, and we have "money, institutional support and dedicated volunteers" -- the very reasons Obama was elected president. Money did talk in the election, did it not? Dedicated volunteers worked hard to help, did they not? Is it only in support of the causes Kennedy approves of that dedication and volunteers are respectable? If the choice the voters of California made is not to our liking, should we also overturn by judicial fiat the choice they made to elect Obama? We cannot have it both ways.

George Boguslawski

Indianapolis