Ho Hum, What's new?

California voters passed Proposition 8 last year, banning same-sex marriages. Then a challenge in the CA state court was not upheld by the CA Supreme Court. Now there is a lawsuit before a U.S. District Court claiming that it violates the U.S. Constitution. It could go to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Chief Judge Vaughn Walker asked the lawyer for a group that sponsored Prop8 to explain how allowing gay couples to marry threatens conventional marriages, since that is their main defense.

"My answer is, I don't know. I don't know," lawyer Charles Cooper answered.

He later elaborated, "There are things we can't know. . . . The people of California are entitled to step back and let the experiment unfold in Massachusetts and other places, to see whether our concerns about the health of marital unions have either been confirmed or perhaps they have been completely assuaged."

Well . . . . let's look at that. That "experiment" in Massachusetts has now been going on for five and one-half years. And even its opponents have not offered one scintilla of evidence to suggest it has had any effect on heterosexual marriages at all. Heck, they haven't even tried to twist or bend statistics into misleading charges. Just one big silence.

Meanwhile, five other states have jumped on the bandwagon, and at least two others are likely to do so soon. And there's not even any push among conservatives in Congress to over-rule the District of Columbia's decision to allow gay marriages.

Lawyer Cooper, I believe you have a very weak defense, Sir.

Ralph