Mormons love eggs

52% of California voters chose to strip a minority of their friends, family and neighbors of rights conferred on them twice by their elected legislature (only to fall to a veto by a governor who thought the courts should decide), then conferred on them again by the courts.

63%, however, are foursquare against being mean to chickens:

With the passage of Proposition 2 on Tuesday, California voters decided to forbid the caging of farm animals in enclosures that do not allow them to stand, turn around, lie down and fully extend their limbs.

Farmers will have to remove hens from so-called battery cages and raise them in hen houses or outside yards.

Confining crates for veal calves and pregnant sows also are outlawed under Proposition 2. But because there are few veal producers in the state and the largest California pork producer plans to eliminate small crates voluntarily, the law will mostly affect the state's 20 million hens that produce roughly 5 billion eggs a year.

The measure does not go into effect until 2015.