'More respectful'? What was respectful about states denying people the ability to see their partner in the hospital because they have the crime of being gay? Or being denied the ability to participate in basic rights because they're gay?
Or is it just because it doesn't inconvenience you? Like these are all things that are very fresh in the memory of anyone gay that's lived in southern or red states. It's not a democracy if you have a bunch of people you treat as second class citizens.
Majority rule literally the definition of democracy.
This is obviously in conflict with minority rights.
If you care more about minority rights than democracy, fine. Lots of governments have limits on majority rule. The USA constitution is a famous example.
But those limits are limits on democracy. Which make them anti-democratic.
The more strictly you protect minority rights the less democratic your society is.
> It's not a democracy if you have a bunch of people you treat as second class citizens.
That's the purest democracy there is. A direct democracy that let people vote on absolutely anything would always produce that result.
Or is it just because it doesn't inconvenience you? Like these are all things that are very fresh in the memory of anyone gay that's lived in southern or red states. It's not a democracy if you have a bunch of people you treat as second class citizens.