Well I guess this is just another case of the (self-elected) "elite intelligentsia" tail wagging the entire sociocultural dog, philosofy123. And they've been doing it for some eight or so decades by my reckoning, steadily perfecting the craft. The amazing thing is they usually get away with this sort of thing. Either nobody notices, or nobody cares enough, to challenge such enormities against reason and nature.
There's an excellent article in the March 8th edition of National Review, called "What 'Republican' Should Mean," by David Gelernter. An excerpt, on point:
"In a democracy, the people and not the courts are meant to lay out the moral and social boundaries of society.... Jews and Christians have let bullies take over the commons [i.e., the public discourse], and we ought to be ashamed of ourselves.... For courts to ordain homosexual marriage is the textbook definition of tyranny."
Lots of stuff to think over here. Yet if it were true the people no longer care about escaping the clutches of tyranny, then how would you rate the future prospects of liberty and democracy?