At the heart of pro-Prop 8 arguments—and the whole point of the Alliance Defense Fund’s existence—is the idea that “the democratic process” and “mob rule” are indistinguishable from one another. Says Fred Clark on the Slacktivist blog, “Perry v. Schwarzenegger may not settle the question of marriage equality in the short term, but it has demonstrated for all to see that in the long term there is only one outcome constitutionally possible. Once the bullies have been revealed as nothing more than that, the rest is inevitable.”