Grand Rapids, Michigan (CNN) -- I wonder if black people would be still in the fields picking cotton today if the 13th Amendment -- the one abolishing slavery -- was placed on the ballot back in 1865. I wonder if Hillary Clinton would be at home baking cookies instead of serving as secretary of state if women's suffrage was put to a vote back in 1919. In other words, I wonder just how far along we would be as a society if the oppressive majority held all of the legislative and judicial power over the oppressed minority, essentially yanking the teeth out of Congress and the Supreme Court.
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LZ Granderson says everything the gay community wants is in the Constitution
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Civil rights for African-Americans didn't come through popular vote, he says
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Congress and the courts took the lead and popular opinion eventually moved, he says
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Granderson: In 29 states, it's still legal to fire someone because he or she is gay
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Early polls indicate that at least one of them will indeed vote in favor of marriage equality, which is a victory for the 14th Amendment of the @placeholder.