I'm a big supporter of gay marriage, but the fact that we are relying on the Supreme Court, "a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine" as Justice Scalia put it, to legalize gay marriage, despite clear public support for doing so, indicates to me that American democracy has ground to a halt. The "true" reading of the constitution leads me, and I think most other honest leftists, to the conclusion that the majority ruling in Obergefell v Hodges is based not on judicial questions, but rather legislative impulses. It's time for a new constitution. A constitution which protects the rights of all people, which allows democracy to function without the impediments of filibuster, gerrymandering, and money in politics. If we continue to put our faith in an unelected judiciary, we may one day suffer the consequences.