Another green shoot from the Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro. Cato, of course, has long been one critical part of the conservative coalition not hostile to the equality and dignity of gay citizens. Money quote:
Prop. 8 denies gays and lesbians the liberty to marry the person of their own choosing, places a badge of inferiority on same-sex couples’ loving relationships and family life (with the full authority of the state behind it), and perpetrates an impermissible injury to these individuals’ personal dignity. It thus directly subverts the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, and is an affront to the inalienable right to pursue one’s own happiness that has guided our nation since its founding.
The Dish 