Boxes are for Shoesa tumblelog

Maybe I’m confused here, but l have grown up in America and for the past 3 decades I have always understood democracy as, “The peoples vote decides the outcome” in, well, voting. Apparently that is not the case because even though the registered voters in California had the majority vote to put a ban on gay marriage it got overturned, not by thousands of men, but by 7 men. This isn’t logically sound. According to this thinking, if the whole state of Texas, meaning 100% of the registered voters, were to vote that they wanted to outlaw the death penalty and 7 judges said no we don’t want that and don’t care what the other 20 million people think, that it would be considered okay. It’s not okay! Regardless of the issue I believe that the voters should decide what is right, not what 7 pompous, rich and arrogant judges think.