When asked by Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker how gay marriage had a negative impact on people having children, the lawyer responded, “Your honor, my answer is, I don’t know. One of the main arguments, the lawyers fighting to preserve Proposition 8 contended, was that the state’s interest in marriage involved procreation, meaning who knows what? Certainly not the lawyers for the conservatives. But the truth is, when the conservative argument was, essentially, that they were opposing gay marriage just ’cause, no rational judge could have given them a victory. The antis lost, and the conservatives ranted, calling the judge an activist and biased. *Schwarzenegger,*the big California case challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8, which required that the state recognize marriages only of heterosexual couples.
Anyone who doubts this should start his or her self-education by reading the transcripts from* Perry* v.