On Richard Cohen's gag reflex

Well, that is the problem. It’s not a feature if it’s causing problems, it’s a bug, even if the majority of users are okay with that problem.

Besides which, even if what is right is decided by the simple majority, that doesn’t apply in this case, since there are principles held by the majority that supersede the idea of inter-racial marriage being wrong. The pursuit of happiness and all that is clearly a superior rule to “$ARBITRARY_GROUPING_1 should not marry $ARBITRARY_GROUPING_2”.