“At Calif. gay marriage trial, marriage is not the only flash point”

Christian Science Monitor: “Since the trial began Jan. 11 in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, lawyers for the two couples have called to the stand psychologists and historians to try to show a pattern hostility that limits the political power of gay and lesbian Americans . . . ‘I don’t see how anyone can argue with a straight face that the homosexual community in California doesn’t have political power,’ says Austin Nimocks, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, which joined Protect Marriage.com in defending Proposition 8. What’s more, he says, ‘we don’t believe that personal behavior rises to the level of a protected class.’”