However, it will enable me to get something off my chest.

While I understand the innerworkings and such of our government and for the most part, love the system and how things can operate and be successful, I don't for the life of me understand just how the fuck we, as a people of our respective states and as our country, are okay with allowing the people to vote on whether or not other people get rights or not. I don't get it. I'm happy to call myself naive and Pollyanna-like in my unbelieving, and maybe my logic is not like your Earth Logic, but correct me if I'm wrong - if we had allowed the kind of referendums and such in the 60's, the Civil Rights Movement would have been voted down CONSTANTLY. Why the hell are gay rights different? Why?