Yes, at one time the people of the US appointed Congressmen, Senators and State Legislators to write amendments to the US Constitution which allowed the High Court to end slavery and mixed race marriage bans. Now rather than convince we the people to do that, certain people and judges choose to make an end run around the system and reshape the system to their will as they did for abortion. I just can not be happy about that for some reason...
Yes, I can see what you are saying but in the end will the method of how this social change came about really matter if the results will still be the same?
Take the case of abolition, the method really had no effect on the outcome, we still fought the Civil War because an unpopular move by the government will always be view as unpopular regardless how it is implemented.
I can’t see how marriage wont be expanded to include gays, I guess that is why I consider myself a strong fiscal conservative and let it leak on the social side, anyway it helps keeps me sane.