This is not a Civil rights issue. Civil rights pertain to protecting the application of the constitution. Marriage is not part of the constitution.

I roll my eye when i hear gay people say "we can't get married". That simply isn't true. I can marry whoever i want. I can marry this lovely girl I'm chatting up right now if i wanted to. The government is not my father. It can not tell me what i can and can not do. If i marry a girl right now the ceremony will be the same and the government will not stop me.

As a constitutional representative democracy we are here to uphold the ideas of the people of this country. The constitution was there to protect the rights of the minorities and it does not mention marriage accepts when modified by the will of the people. Let's not forget though that the constitution was written to protect men from the right parts of Europe. At the time it was written a lot of other type of people were considered livestock not humans.

So this idea that our founding fathers thought "hey one day Africans, Irish, Native Americans, Chinese etc will all live here in harmony" is just not true. Most people weren't allowed to immigrate into this country because they were "dirty". We held those British idea of superiority in our original documents. The beauty of how the our government system works is that it IS the will of the people who can change those ideas.