In reality, the referendum on gay marriage should never have been done. Can you imagine a referendum on civil rights of blacks in Georgia or Alabama in the sixties? Or a referendum on voting rights for women? Certain values of equality and justice are not negotiable, and should certainly not be submitted to a vote of a humoral populace easily influenced and conditioned. Otherwise it'll end up as Jesus and Barabbas vote ended.
That referendum was accompanied by misleading propaganda, lies, repeating the most trite prejudices about homosexuals and by ravings about the need to "defend marriage" (whose?) from gay marriage. But equal rights in marriage cannot harm in any way heterosexual marriages, and none of those yelling homophobic bigot against gay marriage would be forced to marry a man ... as they probably wanted "the people" to believe. No, it wasn't an honest referendum. It's only fair and just that the result was overturned. and that Justice and Civil Rights have triumphed over bigotry and prejudice.
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