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.

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[legolastn.livejournal.com]

An evidence-based approach doesn't usually carry the day in the U.S., either (and once this case hits the Supremes it may still not). Witness continued government funding of abstinence education, for example.