Then what's the use of voting about it?
The referendum in question has been defeated in recent years, so you can't say democracy hasn't had its say. What gets annoying is when a community soundly rejects a proposal to change the law and reaffirms its tradition, but the opposition keeps trying to change the law with the intent of eventually just wearing people out and having them say, "Heck with it." It's a rather puerile method if you ask me, but oh well.