the most honest thing I've heard a Prop H8 supporter say.....

You may have heard that a motion to dismiss the federal lawsuit against Prop H8 was denied.

Chief Justice Vaughn Walker of the US District Court for Northern California issued the ruling today.

Prop H8 attorney Chuck Cooper kept returning to his argument that the state has a vested interest in promoting "natural procreative relationships of opposite sex couples to produce the next generation of citizens."

Walker kept hammering Cooper with questions about how same-sex marriage in anyway threatens opposite sex marriage. He also pointed out that the state clearly doesn't include having children as a requirement for marriage since he, himself, had just married an opposite couple, one in her 80's and the other in his 90's. The judge also pointed out that almost 40% of pregnancies are to single women, and the state obviously doesn't have a requirement to be married to have children in the first place.

But here comes the good stuff. When Walker asked Cooper directly how same-sex marriage negatively impacts opposite-sex marriage, Cooper astonished the courtroom by saying, "My answer is, I don't know." He also conceded that there is no evidence where same-sex marriage is legal that it has any relevance to opposite-sex marriage whatsoever. But, he said the state has the right to say "no" to same-sex marriage, and stand back and watch how it plays out in jurisdictions where it is legal.

So, Mr. Cooper, your entire argument in support of Prop H8 is that same-sex marriage somehow negatively impacts opposite-sex marriages. But, when pressed, you can't come up with a shred of evidence that it actually does. And, by the way, Massachusetts has had legal same-sex marriage for what? Five years now? And doesn't Massachusetts have the lowest divorce rate in the nation? By your own arguments, you are proving the case that opposition to same-sex marriage is based solely on animus toward gay people, and you will lose this fight.

I'm feeling pretty good about the way things are going in this lawsuit. Judge Walker, by the way, is not your typical San Francisco screaming liberal. He is known as an independent conservative, and was appointed by President George H.W. Bush.