Controls, Laws

1. Describe a situation in which you thought personal or public expression went too far and should be curbed? How might you remedy this situation?

I feel like the protestors that voted No on Proposition 8 took their personal expression too far by going public with their riots, rallies, and demonstrations.  I felt like the issue was settled when California voted and Proposition 8 was passed; the issue should have been over and done with because we wanted the people to vote, they voted, but didn’t get the response that they wanted.  I thought about if the situation had been the other way around and we, as members of the LDS, had not gotten the results form the ballot that we had been hoping for, you would not have heard a sound from us.  We would have been sad at the situation but gone on with our everyday life.  I felt like the protestors took it too far by going to extremes like violence, vandalism, and posting untrue media on the internet and TV.  I’m not exactly sure how I would rememdy this situation, because if we tell people they can’t protest, then it takes away their freedom of expression.  The only way to remedy this is to hope that in time, people that are in the losing seat of a vote can accept that we people voted and the majority won.  Police were trying to control the violence and rage, but there is really no way to put a remedy to people taking things to an extreme.