>> This is, after all, the most important issue facing Alaska today. 

Hmm. Are you saying this doesn't really seem like a pressing issue? Because if so, I agree with you.

But there are people who don't agree with you and me. People who are so intent on forcing others to conform to the way THEY think society should be run, that they are actually willing to write laws to that effect. So if you don't do things the way they consider "proper," you will be facing not just their disapproval but the actual heavy hand of the Law.

I'm talking, of course, about the initiative signers; but about the progressives who in 2005 felt this matter so "important" that they codified their feelings into law.