Liberty Counsel's Attempt to Intervene in Prop 8 Defense Rejected

It was a sunny summer morning, but inside a San Francisco federal courtroom the outlook for Rena Lindevaldsen of Liberty Counsel was cloudy. Charles Cooper, representing the official anti-gay marriage forces in a federal court challenge to Proposition 8, wasn't fighting hard enough, she insisted. He wouldn't try to prove, for instance, that homosexuality is an "illness or disorder." "Individuals should be entitled to treatment to change your sexual orientation," Lindevaldsen argued. Cooper's team quickly deflected Liberty Counsel's attempt to intervene, saying it just wanted to fight battles that "can't be won." That left Cooper -- a consummate Beltway insider who avoids the kind of language favored by Lindevaldsen -- and his firm the sole legal representatives for 7 million Californians that supported Prop 8. Full Story from Law.com: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202434373140&A_Conservative_Choice_for_Supporters_of_Calif_Ban_on_Gay_Marriages

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