No, you didn't change people's hearts. If you think you have achieved "victory" by means of tyranny of the unelected, then you have failed. You have acquiesced to the tyranny of the unelected. Just because you are not happy with the tyranny of the majorjty (Democracy) or the pace of change by means of elected representatives (Republic) doesn't mean tyranny of the unelected is the answer. It is worse, because at least under a Republic, and in most cases under a Democracy, if you change the hearts of humans who are full of faults - including yourself - then those hearts will make the victory long standing. One man's interpretation or 12 is not an excuse.
But this method sets the stage for your own undoing. It is a failure, the victory will be short lived. Do not be surprised when the next unelected brings you untold things that will effectively write you off entirely as ever even being alive. Be careful - with a gun you do not understand. Freedom is not the norm. You can claim you are not free. But you will be much less free in short order.
Marriage license in history, be it a on a slab of stone, or printed on a paper, never had anything to do with religion. Religion good or bad, was "just there". But the "license" - that is the state. It never had anything to do with love. It only had to do with the state regulating the cost of children dumped onto society by fathers or mothers who just "walk away". In most society, unless so poor or so torn they simply don't care if children simply are given to the dead and used as a door stop, the state realizes they cannot afford such burden on their people of such children. And so, this is simply regulation as known for thousands of years about regulating children.
Even before the "ban" was overturned by a court, there was nothing preventing two gays having a religious rite recognizing their love for each other and a commitment for life in such love. If you can find such a temple or church or place of "religion" nothing was stopping you to have such a right. It was the state license, not what you are calling marriage, which was your problem. There are reasons to argue the need to be fair, that science has advanced, that children may not only be from a man and a woman. Then change their hearts. Do not blame religion, this license as you call it is of the state, many religions, but states of every sort including atheist states. Your problem is with the state. Do not give the state too much power. I like a Republic over a Democracy - but I will take either any day over tyranny, as flawed as a Republic or Democracy is, this is not the way.
You have failed until you figure out how to change enough hearts to make a difference. And don't be smartalec and in the face of others who oppose you, you will only add to their numbers, be careful how fast the worm will turn. Because yes, people are not always wise. You will see, later.
