by Patrick Appel
Yesterday, I noted that defenders of Prop 8 "couldn't produce a single expert witness who could make a strong secular case against marriage equality." Dahlia Lithwick reports that the defense of Prop 8 hasn't gotten any stronger:
The evidence, the data, and the experts overwhelming agree that gay marriage does not harm children. And that leaves opponents of gay marriage to argue a tautology: Gay marriage is wrong because it’s wrong.
One thing is certain: The problem for proponents of Prop 8 wasn’t that they hadn’t had enough time to hone their argument. Four months later, during the argument at the appeals court, Charles Cooper again found himself unable to articulate a single plausible reason for why the ban existed in California.
The Dish 