When Rights became majority based again

Remember back in the day, like a few days ago, when things like the right for non-polygamist non-heterosexuals to be married was absolute, and it didn't matter one rip over how many Americans disagreed, weren't homosexual, or any such thing?  Ever since the Civil Rights era, one of the things pounded into the minds of Americans is the fact that what the majority thinks is never - EVER - to be taken into account when considering a person's rights.  That's why one crank can decide his daughter shouldn't be forced to say Under God in the pledge of allegiance, and many feel the other 300 million Americans are suddenly irrelevant to the fact that his rights are being violated.

Fair enough.  But now, suddenly, we have the much vaunted, worshipped, celebrated and venerated 98%.  No, not the 99% which are set in juxtaposition to the 1% of wealthy who are routinely screwing the rest of Americans in order to fill their own pockets.  This is the 98%, that is 98% of Catholics who use contraceptives.  This, of course, in addition to the rest of America that, according to Democrats, enjoys sex as well.

OK, so let's give the 98% statistic.  Let's assume Americans have sex.  Let's assume they don't always want it to lead to babies.  Let's assume 98% of Catholics give the high middle one to the Church and use contraceptives anyway.  My question?  So what the hell does that mean?   That's like saying, as best as I can tell, that since the majority of Americans, including Catholics, don't seem to give a damn about contraceptives, we shouldn't care what that 2% think.  I mean, that seems to be what they're saying. I mean, it seems like pro-Obama supporters are reaching back to their pre-civil rights days to remind us that it's time to resurrect the old 'rights by majority' argument.

I don't know.  Maybe that's not what they mean.  But if it isn't, I'd like to know just what they mean by constantly bringing up the legendary 98% of Americans who don't care what the Catholic Church teaches about contraceptives.  If there are 60 million Catholics in the country, and say 30 million are adults, that still means 600,000 Catholics don't use contraceptives, and may very well see this as a gross imposition on their religious rights.  Yet, apparently, that doesn't matter.  Or I think. If that's not the point, then what does the 98% mean I wonders?  Why do they keep bringing it up?  If it's not to suggest that rights are based on what the majority cares about, then what other purpose is behind bringing it up?  Just saying.