Ed Whelan: Judge Walker and supposed lack of “evidence” of marriage’s procreative purpose

Ed Whelan writing at National Review Online: “Among the many distortions and falsehoods that Judge Vaughn Walker has tried to propagate through his anti-Prop 8 ruling is his claim that the Prop 8 proponents . . . ‘failed to build a credible factual record to support their claim that Proposition 8 served a legitimate government interest’ . . . But in fact the Prop 8 proponents offered a thorough case that Walker almost entirely ignored—a case resting on a broad array of judicial authority, recognized scholarship in various academic fields, extensive documentary evidence, and elementary common sense.”