Ray From Cleveland
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It had everything to do with protests. Without gays protesting no one would have given a shit and gay marriage wouldn't have majority support, I doubt the Supreme Court would have heard the case.
Then there is the civil rights movement, that had a lot of protests and in many ways shaped the Democratic Party to adopt a pro civil rights stance (outside of the south of course). Insisting on eating at lunch counters, bus boycotts, protesters getting their heads beaten in on live television certainly had an impact on civil rights.
Women protesting for the right to vote, that seems to have worked out as well. If they just stayed in the kitchen, nothing would have changed.
Again, you bring up past events when there was little that people could be do to be heard.
Today if you have a bitch, you can get on this internet. You can contact your local paper and write an opinion piece. You can contact your local news agencies for video coverage. You can post a YouTube video. There are many ways today to be heard. You don't have to put people in jeopardy and block roads for crying out loud.
The Supreme Court does not hear cases based on how many protests there were about the case. In most instances, they listen to cases where lower courts were divided, or a lower court ruling that was questionable to them. That being said, protests do nothing but start trouble, nothing more.