We voted out justices, voted in justice

This is in response to your Nov. 21 editorial, “Fighting for an independent judiciary.” You stated, “Voters must do a better job of learning about what's at stake, too, and weigh in.”

Well, encouraging voters to be well-informed about all issues and candidates they are voting for is certainly a good thing; there is no issue there. If the 148,000 who did not vote on the Iowa Supreme Court judicial retention issue voted, the rejection margin could have been greater than it was and that would have been a good thing.

Those of us who voted to reject these justices were very well-informed and knew exactly what we were doing.

You also mentioned the justices were simply doing their jobs. Maybe, but they were doing their jobs poorly. These justices affronted the social, cultural and religious norms of the citizens of Iowa with their ruling on same-sex marriage. We, the voters of Iowa, do not need to be legal scholars to have a sense of what is right and wrong.

These justices got it so wrong that they had to go.

Bruce Collins

Elkader