Analysis of the Prop 8 Gay Marriage Case

A federal court case in San Francisco may offer a window into the arguments in favor of marriage equality that could eventually find their way before the U.S. Supreme Court. An Oct. 26 New York Times article reported that the lawyer in the anti-marriage side of the case, which challenges Proposition 8 on the claim that the voter referendum that yanked marriage rights away from Californai’s gay and lesbian families last year violated federal Constitutional protections, was unable to articulate why gays marrying is a threat to stable unions between heterosexuals. Attorney Charles J. Cooper made the claim that there was a state interest in denying gay and lesbian families marriage parity in order to encourage straight couples to marry and have children. But when the judge in the case, Vaughn R. Walker, asked exactly how the domestic affairs of a gay couple could disrupt the martial course of a straight couple’s life, Cooper admitted that he was stumped. Full Story from Edge Boston: http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=98269

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