You're using a broad brush to try and make your point. I'm not for "mob rule" as you'd like to make it sound. I'm simply for the voice of the people being heard and upheld. I don't think that people who are pro-gay marrige in Cali are upset about "majority rules", they're upset because the majority didn't agree with them this time. If Prop 8 had failed, you'd hear ever supporter screaming from the rooftops about how the people had spoken. Funny how that works.
Under your line of thinking, why put anything to a vote of the people? Do you honestly believe that the old men in suits and the judges in Washington D.C. are the right people to make these type of decisions day in and day out? I'm sorry, but I do not. I feel that the American people would do a wonderful job of governing themselves if big government would get out of our way and let us do just that.