There is controversy over that...or at least I haven't heard the exact answer for it.
Yeah, I agree that it shouldn't have been put up to a vote. I mean, we've learned pretty repeatedly that the ballot box tends to be pretty discriminatory. We needed Brown v. Board and Loving v. Viriginia to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority.
Putting the rights of black people or hispanic people up to a vote would not ever fly, but gay and lesbians it did, and it was wrong.
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