One solitary man, a lawyer, an unelected life-tenured activist federal judge, legislating his personal views of how society ought to be ordered in Nebraska, trumping the Nebraska hundred member legislature and negating the constitution of its million people.
There is nothing praiseworthy about that.
I didn't say it was praiseworthy. I said it wasn't the same as a state judge declaring a state constitutional amendment unconstitutional.
The equivalent would be a federal judge declaring the gay marriage amendment to the U.S. Constitution unconstitutional.
Actually there's only 49 senators in the single-house Unicameral legislature and we have about 1.6 million in population.