The Christian Science Monitor, October 12, 2010 by Daniel B. Wood
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[Choper] says Judge Phillips’s arguments are strong and not dissimilar to the reasoning of US District Court Judge Vaughn Walker in California’s landmark Proposition 8 gay marriage case, which found that “California has no interest in discriminating against gay men and lesbians.” Phillips “is saying there is insufficient reason that the government needs to be engaging in this form of discrimination, and that this is a cohort that ought to be given sympathetic treatment by the courts,” says Choper.