The reason is because the laws as is are discriminatory. The majority of people in this country wanted to keep slavery going but it was made illegal by the courts. If you follow your thought, we should have kept slavery until there could be a vote where the majority of people voted against it.

WRONG. First of all I don't even think it was a "minority vs majority" in the case of slavery in the U.S. The North wanted the South to end slavery, but instead of giving them the help they needed to wean themselves off of plantations (which required slave labour), they instead demanded that the slavery end immiediately. Hypocritical considering the fact that the north was itself taking ...

The reason is because the laws as is are discriminatory. The majority of people in this country wanted to keep slavery going but it was made illegal by the courts. If you follow your thought, we should have kept slavery until there could be a vote where the majority of people voted against it.

WRONG. First of all I don't even think it was a "minority vs majority" in the case of slavery in the U.S. The North wanted the South to end slavery, but instead of giving them the help they needed to wean themselves off of plantations (which required slave labour), they instead demanded that the slavery end immiediately. Hypocritical considering the fact that the north was itself taking advantage of Irish immigrants (they weren't enslaved, but they were for all practical purposes being forced to work low wage jobs in unsatisfactory conditions). The south refused claiming that they had the right to keep slavery (which was wrong ofcourse). They fought and the North won. Slavery was quickly ended, though discrimination has not ended in the 150 years since the civil war. And if it was a case of majority vs minority, I do believe that the majority were AGAINST slavery, not for it. The south was actually using your exact same argument to keep slavery!!(That they had the right to keep it regardless of what the north felt) And, for the umpteenth time, this is not about OPRESSION against homosexuals. This is about the definition of marriage. And the point of this clip was to show that the majority does still oppose redefining traditional marriage, which is contrary to what others have been trying to say.