Southern voters said "no" to interracial marriage and integration for decades. What's your point?
This issue isn't going to go away. The reason these things wind up going to courts is precisely because overt discrimination and unequal treatment requires widespread social consent in order to continue. Getting the same people engaging, or tolerating, discriminatory treatment to vote against their ability to continue in said discrimination is why so many civil rights advances have their birthplace in courts, with overarching Federal legislation frequently following along after the fact.
That plus, the overt LYING in the multimillion dollar "yes on 8" ad campaign scared people into voting for 8 on things which had nothing to do with 8. The belief that you are so morally correct in opposing gay marriage, that you are morally justified in lying on a massive level to get your way, is not the proper functioning of the democratic process IMHO. If you just listened to the ads you would think 8 had to do with whether or not gay marriage should not be taught in public schools, or that kids should not have to attend gay weddings in their education. I never heard a single yes on 8 ad that in any way even approached telling the truth about what the law was. I didn't even know it was a ban in the state constitution until I read more about it online.
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