Explain again how the majority get what they want over the minority including depriving us of our liberty and property because we are a democracy who believe in mob rule, yet the majority can be overruled by one guy in a robe?
The United States is a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy, whose citizens are subject solely to the rule of law, not men, as men are incapable of ruling justly – measures seeking to deny same-sex couples access to marriage law are proof of that.
And when the people err and indeed enact measures intended to deny citizens their civil liberties, those disadvantaged are at liberty to seek relief in the Federal courts, where the measure in question is subject to judicial review in accordance with the rule of law, and if found to be repugnant to the Constitution, invalidated.
Measures are determined to be un-Constitutional not by “one guy in a robe," but by the Constitutional case law relevant to the issue under review, where that case law is applied consistently to all like conflicts and controversies.
With regard to same-sex couples, therefore, “[a] state cannot so deem a class of persons a stranger to its laws” (
Romer v. Evans (1996)), and that would include marriage laws.