[Kerberos]

"Who do you think make laws?"

Like you said, Congress makes law, judges interprets law. Then the people refer to it as either, following the rule of law, those that agree with the decision, or, being activist judges, those who don't agree with the ruling.

[MEG33]

You see nothing wrong with overriding the traditional,long held Western civilization belief that marriage is between a man and a woman.

[dsc]

"those who don't agree with the ruling"

The question of judicial activism is one of empirical reality, not one of agreement or disagreement with the ruling.

If a court were to annouce something I agreed with but which was neither constitutionally mandated nor enected by a legislative body--say, for instance, rounding up every Clinton/Gore voter, branding them on the forehead with the words "moral leper," taking away their right to vote and restricting them from certain jobs--that would be judicial activism as a matter of objective fact, regardless of who agreed or disagreed.