Gay Marriage Bans

Why is it that the current "administration" always says that it's just "doing the people's will" or "going with the people" when it tries to push through gay marriage bans?

The people shouldn't be allowed to choose what rights other people can have. Everybody should have the same rights automatically. If the people of Alabama had been allowed to choose whether or not blacks got equal civil rights with whites in the 1950s and 1960s, would they have?

If the people are allowed to pick and choose what rights each little minority group gets, what would our nation be but glorified mob rule? There IS a reason the Founding Fathers made us a republic, and not a direct democracy, after all.

Marriage can be seen two ways. Marriage in the eyes of God(marriage(g)), and Marriage in the eyes of the State(marriage(s)). If you are a christian, then you see marriage(g) as a union between a man and a woman, and a gay couple can never have a marriage(g). That's all fine. But restricting them from having the legal and economic status of a marriage(s) for that reason is unfair. So we have people saying they can have that status, just don't call it marriage. Separate, but equivalent institutions in the eyes of the state. However, we've tried that whole separate but equal thing before. Didn't work. Therefore, the christian right should simply realise that a marriage(g) is different from a marriage(s), and console themselves that gay couples never can gain a marriage(g), and allow them to have a marriage(s).