from our friends at WaPo
The real way to give gay people rights is to vote for one of two parties who will eventually elect a judge to a comittee that is 30 years behind popular consensus and prone to wild swings due to being appointed when the previous occupants die, so it is a roll of the dice if your vote will ever matter on the subject.
the supreme court can also pre-empt public opinion, as it did on interracial marriage
The real response is that it’s meaningless - if you focus on one of the handful of good things SCOTUS has done you fail to see the totality of a political entity consistently used to justify and protect the rights of slaveowners and capitalists at the expense of everyone else.
But further, Loving v Virginia was 60 years ago: Since then, the court has been captured by christian fascists in a deliberate effort to roll back any of the slim progress gained over that period. Debating about media polls obscures the court’s awful history and it’s current state as a direct tool by reactionary forces.
