There is mainstream public opinion, even among Christians, that crimes should be what public opinion (WeThePeople) defines them to be. This irrational view cannot be defended with any kind of logic, but it is held none-the-less.

Christian News NW Feb 2012 Has an article about the pending approval of homosexual marriage in Washington State.

Wiki says, "A bill to legalize same-sex marriage passed the Legislature and was signed by Governor Christine Gregoire on February 13, 2012. Same sex marriages can be performed starting on June 7, 2012"

The Editor notes that there will be an attempt to gather enough signatures to force it to majority vote in November. The practical desire is that Majority will cancel the law (even though Civil Unions will still stand, as ratified by Majority referendum Nov 2009), since opposite-sex marriage has been upheld by all 34 States where the issue has gone to public election.

I'm afraid these people do not understand that nobody believes in Democracy.  Is anyone willing to intellectually defend the idea that one individual has the ethical authority to define law? Do they think the Triune God, on Judgment Day, will reward each man according to his works, judged by the opinions of one, sinful, mortal human? Consistency with that idea leads to either complete anarchy (no laws at all), or dictatorship, and, of course, no one wants either of those systems of justice -- at least when they are not the law-maker.

But if supreme ethical authority lies in the individual, there might be some quasi-rational basis for thinking that some combined quantity of all these little individual sovereign wills some how lend legitimacy to the will of the majority. But if one individual has zero ethical authority to define law, how many zeros do you have to add up to get a big enough number to make the Majority the ethical sovereign to define law? Does anyone think God will judge us in time or eternity based on the will of some majority? Matter of fact, the orthodox Christian position is that the Triune God, on Judgment Day, will reward each man according to his works, judged by the opinions of one individual, and that individual is the Lord Jesus Christ.

John 5:22 For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son, 23 so that all will honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

Not even the Editor at CNNW believes this: "Now, we realize that the electorate may not back such a repeal. Sometimes, in our view [not democratic], the voting public makes wrong decisions, such as took place when both Oregon and Washington residents OK'd doctor-assisted suicide. That dismayed us..

But The People -- not just legislators -- deserve to have their say on gay marraige."

If you believe in Democracy, it is not possible -- it is meaningless inside that world-view -- to say the majority voting public makes wrong decisions. The majority voting public defines "wrong" and "right" when it comes to law. If they approve sodomy, then everyone who disagrees with it is wrong. Thankfully, the Editor does not really believe this.

Yet he immediately contradicts himself, when he ways "People Deserve Their Say". It may be true that God has allowed the possibility of freedom of speech since Creation's morning. It has always been possible for man to obey or disobey. That is not the same thing as saying they deserve to speak falsehoods. They certainly do not have the right or desert to act, speak, or vote falsely before God. Perhaps he means that men should not be punished by other men for speaking falsely? Yet, even in a "democratic" society, the consensus is that, to some degree, God's law against perjury should be taken seriously. There are laws on the books, even if they are not necessarily as good, or as thorough as God's.

Or that if enough people say men should be punished for not agreeing with the falsehoods, then any non-conformists should be punished in some way. But maybe all he means is that Police and Military should not punish men for speaking falsehoods, or falsely accusing others.