Proposition 8: It's All About the Evidence

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Since Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling a couple of weeks ago that California's Proposition 8 was un-Constitutional, I've been very frustrated reading the proponents' response.  The people who wish to keep same-sex marriage unavailable in California were unsurprisingly outraged by the decision.  But their arguments have centered around a) the judge's alleged sexuality, b) the horrible job the defense did, and c) the same long list of "arguments" that already lost in court.

The a) argument is nonsensical, since everybody has a sexuality, and therefore it would be impossible to get a judge who couldn't potentially be affected by the ruling. The b) argument is accurate, but misses the point the defense had absolutely nothing to work with. And the c) arguments are chock full of irony, since the arguers don't seem to realize that they've already been debunked.  Even though I've been doing this blogging thing for three years, I'm the first to admit that I don't always get my point articulated the way I'd like.  So once again, I'm going to defer to another writer, one who really gets what the Proposition 8 case was really all about.

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On Prop 8, it's the evidence, stupid

There's a big difference between a political debate about same-sex marriage and the recent hard-fought court challenge to the California ban, Proposition 8.


In politics, anything goes: Vague, sinister comments about same-sex marriage threatening children or undermining the sanctity of heterosexual marriage were prevalent during the Prop 8 campaign. In court, same-sex marriage opponents needed solid evidence to back up these and other claims. . .

Read more at: CNN