“How San Diego mayor shifted on gay marriage”

San Francisco Chronicle: “In cross-examination, Brian Raum of the Alliance Defense Fund, a lawyer for Prop. 8′s sponsors, grilled Sanders about his assertion that he bore no ill will toward gays and lesbians during the years he opposed their right to marry. Isn’t it true, Raum asked, that many people ‘voted for Proposition 8 because they believed civil unions were a fair and reasonable alternative to marriage,’ the view Sanders formerly espoused? Weren’t there ‘sincere religious beliefs on both sides?’ Does a voter, Raum asked, have to be a bigot to favor the traditional concept of marriage?”