Judges are not there to express the will of the people, legislatures are.
Then why have legislatures done such a terrible job of it?
it's all total nonsense. my hunch is that baby Boomer liberals have this psychological need to see society progress to these previously unknown heights of tolerance, and by allowing a few thousand gay couples in each state marry they actually think they're making a Rosa Parks-esque imprint on society.
not a few liberals compared Edie Windsor directly to Parks. keep in mind Windsor's case only reached the SCOTUS because she had to pay a $363k tax as a result of her partner dying! Rosa Parks wouldn't have known which real estate agents to hire if she had $363k in 1955 dollars. my father, himself a baby boomer Jewish liberal, said something to me like "your generation will take it for granted, but gay marriage is revolutionizing society in a way you probably can't understand". I just glared at him, as I usually do when discussing any topic this side of minor-conference college basketball.
the end result of this is that gays are joining the post-WW2 Jews as the most privileged group in world history: not disadvantaged at all by any demonstrable economic statistic, yet enjoying multiple "extra" protections under the law.
