Cindy - You missed one point. Signing a petition to put an issue on the ballot is not the same as supporting the issue. I have personally signed several petitions because I believe it should be up to the majority of the voters to decide the issue, not because I thought the subject of the petition was necessarily a good idea or that I had read the entire initiative and agreed with everything it had to say. It's called honoring the democratic process. Technically, the council probably had the authority to approve the measure. Ethically, I think they overstepped their representation of all the citizens of the islands.