Gay man states that overpopulation is the cause of polution and disease and being gay will cub population. he is challenged by pro family activist outside ninth circuit court in san francisco Judges Michael Hawkins and Stephen Reinhardt compared the case to a 1996 Supreme Court ruling overturning a Colorado initiative that prohibited local governments from enacting civil rights laws protecting gays and lesbians. Without deciding whether the Constitution banned all anti-gay discrimination, the high court said stripping rights from a minority group, for no apparent reason other than moral disapproval, was unconstitutional. What's different? Hawkins noted that California voters approved Prop. 8 six months after the state Supreme Court ruled that gays and lesbians had the right to marry. "How is that different from what happened in Colorado?" he asked Charles Cooper, the lawyer for Prop. 8's sponsors. Cooper replied that the Colorado initiative eliminated numerous rights of gays and lesbians, while Prop. 8 preserved the definition of marriage "that has prevailed in this country and in all places since time immemorial." But Hawkins questioned whether it mattered that one state had abolished more rights than another. Theodore Olson, lawyer for the couples who sued to overturn Prop. 8 - Kristin Perry and Sandy Stier of Berkeley, and Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo of Burbank - argued that the Constitution forbids a state from denying "equal access to the fundamental right to marry ...
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