The essential role here belongs to governmental institutions, i.e. the ruling power, which, instead of preventing discrimination, chose to fall back on public opinion before it decides to legally equate homosexuality, claiming that public opinion is not yet ready for such a change, while (purposefully?) overlooking the fact that the ruling power is one of those authorities that molds and influences changes in public opinion.
Bistveno vlogo imajo pri tem vladne institucije, oblast, ta pa se, namesto da bi preprečevala diskriminacijo, pred prehitrim pravnim izenačevanjem homoseksualcev in heteroseksualcev povratno sklicuje prav na javno mnenje, češ da še ni pripravljeno na tovrstno spremembo, hkrati pa (namerno?) pozablja, da je sama ena izmed instanc, ki spreminja in vpliva na spreminjanje javnega mnenja.