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>>>Democracies with Constitutions are distasteful at times. Because they protect everyone's rights, not just the majority's. And in this case, to my knowledge, it was not a criminal law that was at issue but some regulation of some school board.
>>>People are working hard behind the scenes to overturn "gay marriage" in Canada, and it looks like they'll get their way eventually, some time in the next few years. So there are ways when people really want, to bring about change.
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>>Not when people like you are content to relinquish your responsibilities to the "powers that be". The supreme court are not elected by us. Personally I'd rather have the ability to vote on every issue than to let people I neither elected, nor have any ability to have ejected decide how things should be for me. Democracy by proxy is too close to dictatorship for me.
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>You could build a building via a democracy, but we leave that to experts to be by proxy.

And when things go wrong, as they certainly do, there is no recourse for the common man. To challenge supreme court rulings is so prohibitively expensive that few can really afford to do it. Again, the net effect is the system favors the wealthy. The common person is subject to it, rather than it being subject to us. That is the only real crime in my eyes.