Per Rush, what the SCOTUS did here was overule the vote of the people of Colorado. Of course, the good guys (Rehnquist, Thomas, and Scalia) dissented.
No, as I said, the point is to portray Roberts as such a staunch gay supporter that he would take his perspective to the court to overturn the people's vote. As such they create a figure, which I described previously, who would be forsaken by his own party