How exactly did the court overstep its bounds in giving people like me the right to marry?
Anyone who says that the law should universally reflect the ‘will of the people’ doesn’t know that much about American history. In fact, the framers of the United States Constitution knew that a legislature was a necessary tool to delay or block the whims of the popular majority. That is, they realized that direct popular lawmaking is a terrible idea. They also created an independent judiciary so that the values prescribed in the Constitution would be properly reflected in the law. In this case, the California Supreme Court decided that the legal status of marriage in the state was contrary to the values on which the state was founded.
So who gives a shit if the ‘public’ is ready? If you object to my marriage to another man, that’s your problem. I don’t have the time to deal with that. Get a life.
