Los Angeles Times, Nov. 10, 2008 by Goodwin Liu
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-liu10-2008nov10,0,4823332.story
“Each of the 18,000 same-sex couples and their families in California represents a potential catalyst for broader acceptance of gay marriage. The more familiar we become with gay spouses and their children—as our friends, neighbors and co-workers—the more gay marriage will become an unremarkable thread of our social fabric. Proposition 8 may then come to be viewed, in the long run, not as an enduring constitutional principle but as the will of a narrow and ultimately temporary majority.”