Hooray for Social Science!

[muscadine]

From a story on the overturning of Prop 8:

Backers of Proposition 8 contended that the legal burden was on the challengers to prove there was no rational justification for voting for the measure. They cited as rational a view that children fare best with both a father and a mother.

But defense witnesses conceded in cross-examination that studies show children reared from birth by same-sex couples fared as well as those born to opposite-sex parents and that marriage would benefit the families of gays and lesbians.

Comments

[legolastn.livejournal.com]

I think our best hope at this point is that Justice Kennedy wants to be on the right side of history, although he may try to contort himself into a ruling that upholds the ruling on Prop 8 but doesn't overturn state constitutional amendments or the federal DOMA law.