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Bloomberg: The case, pending before the New Mexico Supreme Court, is about discrimination and has nothing to do with gay marriage, Gill said. Opponents of same-sex marriage, though, see the case as a warning about how legalized gay marriage could impact religious freedom, citing it in at least three amicus briefs filed in the U.S. Supreme Court cases, said Jim Campbell, legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, a Scottsdale, Arizona- based Christian legal group representing the photographer in the New Mexico case and Proposition 8 proponents in the Supreme Court case . . . “People are paying attention to it because it illustrates some of the religious liberty concerns with same-sex marriage,” Campbell said. “If a case like that can arise in a state that doesn’t recognize same-sex marriage, it would be far more likely and far more difficult to defend against in a state that recognizes gay marriage.”

One News Now: Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Jim Campbell explains why the case is important to those who hold a traditional view on marriage. “If the Defense of Marriage Act is overturned, it will send the message that the government can no longer affirm marriage as the union of a man and a woman,” he laments. “It will essentially say that even though throughout history diverse cultures and faiths have upheld marriage as the ideal, as the union of a man and a woman, it will say that here in America we can no longer do that.”

One News Now: Attorney Jim Campbell with Alliance Defending Freedom: “The importance of these cases and what’s at stake is whether the people throughout this country can continue to affirm marriage as we’ve always known it as a union of a man and a woman – or whether a court, through legal decisions, will redefine marriage for all of society.” [more ]

World: Steve Jordahl is a reporter for The World and Everything in It. Mary Reichard is a legal affairs correspondent for The World and Everything in It. She spoke with two lawyers who filed friend-of-the-court briefs in support of DOMA and Proposition 8: Jim Campbell of Alliance Defending Freedom and Lori Windham of The Becket Fund.

The News-Herald: Jim Campbell, a lawyer for Alliance Defending Freedom, which backs Proposition 8, stresses the political battle over gay marriage is “at some point in the middle. … The Supreme Court should resist demands to prematurely end the national debate.”

Christian Science Monitor: “Californians voted for (traditional) marriage twice in the only polls that really matter,” said Jim Campbell, an attorney for Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents opponents of gay marriage in the case that has reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

San Francisco Chronicle: “I think it’s a strong indication that the people are grappling with these issues, which means that there is absolutely no reason for the Supreme Court to cut short the political dialogue that is under way,” said John Eastman, a law professor at Chapman University and chairman of the National Organization for Marriage. “The wisest course is for the Supreme Court to resist demands to prematurely end the national debate over the future of marriage,” said attorney Jim Campbell of the Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents Prop. 8′s sponsors.

Star Herald (AP): “There’s a critical mass of states that have spoken out and believe states should continue to have the right to define marriage as between one man and one woman,” said Jim Campbell, legal counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents supporters of Proposition 8. [This AP report is widely distributed]

Pink News: “There’s a critical mass of states that have spoken out and believe states should continue to have the right to define marriage as between one man and one woman,” said Jim Campbell of the anti-equal marriage Alliance Defending Freedom.

Washington Post: “There’s a critical mass of states that have spoken out and believe states should continue to have the right to define marriage as between one man and one woman,” said Jim Campbell, legal counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents supporters of Proposition 8.

Jim Campbell at Townhall: Disagreements and projections abound in the dialogue about marriage and its redefinition to include same-sex couples. But both sides agree on one issue: redefining marriage significantly jeopardizes religious freedom—the first liberty upon which our nation was founded. The convergence of several factors creates this unavoidable clash between religious liberty and redefining marriage. First, the vast majority of religious adherents in America believe that marriage is the union of one man and one woman

One News Now: Jim Campbell, legal counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, believes the supporters of Prop. 8 have a solid case for marriage. “Marriage between a man and a woman is a universal good that diverse cultures and faiths have honored throughout the history of Western civilization,” he says. “Marriage expresses the truth that men and women bring distinct, irreplaceable gifts to family life. The ProtectMarriage legal team looks forward to advocating before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the people’s right to preserve this fundamental building block of civilization.”

Florida Baptist Witness: The U.S. Supreme Court has announced the dates it will hear two huge cases concerning lawsuits that could reaffirm the historical definition of marriage or lead to the legalization of gay marriage—March 26 and 27 . . . “Marriage between a man and a woman is a universal good that diverse cultures and faiths have honored throughout the history of Western Civilization,” Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Jim Campbell said in a December statement. ADF supports DOMA and Prop 8. “Marriage expresses the truth that men and women bring distinct, irreplaceable gifts to family life. The ProtectMarriage.com legal team looks forward to advocating before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the people’s right to preserve this fundamental building block of civilization,” Campbell said.

AP on Cox News: Jim Campbell, an attorney for a conservative Christian legal organization that isn’t involved in the Beatie case, said in an email that the failure of the courts to protect traditional marriage has led to chaos and that children are being led into “increasingly bizarre situations.” “Sadly, the deep confusion created by these two women, and the biological father who helped conceive the children, is just a symptom of much greater societal problems,” said Campbell, of the Alliance Defending Freedom.

Baptist Press at Florida Baptist Witness: “Marriage between a man and a woman is a universal good that diverse cultures and faiths have honored throughout the history of Western Civilization,” Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Jim Campbell said in a statement. ADF supports DOMA and Prop 8. “Marriage expresses the truth that men and women bring distinct, irreplaceable gifts to family life. The ProtectMarriage.com legal team looks forward to advocating before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the people’s right to preserve this fundamental building block of civilization.”

Jim Campbell on KGO 810 AM San Francisco to discuss the litigation. | MP3 audio 2:55 mins

Warren Richey at Christian Science Monitor on Yahoo News: The Supreme Court’s decision to take up appeals over DOMA and California’s Prop. 8 ban on gay marriage elicited positive reactions from advocates on both sides of the contentious issue . . . Jim Campbell, a lawyer with the conservative group, Alliance Defending Freedom, stressed that Americans have a right to preserve the traditional definition of marriage. He said the institution forms a “fundamental building block of civilization.” “Marriage between a man and a woman is a universal good that diverse cultures and faiths have honored throughout the history of Western civilization,” he said. “Marriage expresses the truth that men and women bring distinct, irreplaceable gifts to family life.”

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Jim Campbell regarding a federal court’s decision in Sevcik v. Sandoval to uphold the state of Nevada’s ability to maintain laws and institute constitutional amendments that protect marriage as the union of one man and one woman . . .

Lexington Herald-Leader: The company is being represented in the case by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a group of Christian attorneys dedicated to “transforming the legal system and advocating for religious liberty, the sanctity of life, and marriage and family,” according to the organization’s website. Americans in the marketplace should not be subject to legal attacks simply for abiding by their beliefs,” Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Jim Campbell said in a statement. “The Constitution prohibits the government from forcing business owners to promote messages they disagree with.”

Christian Civic League of Maine reprint earlier report by Mike McManus: “When people hear their legislature is considering a law like this and they think, `What’s the harm?’ They need to realize that there is a direct threat to religious liberty – to business owners, employees, religious entities,” said Jim Campbell of the Alliance Defense Fund.

Virtue Online: Same-sex marriage is on the ballot this fall in Maryland, Minnesota, Washington State and Maine. Polls show support for it now in all four states, though it is narrowing in Maine. “When people hear their legislature is considering a law like this and they think, ‘What’s the harm?’ They need to realize that there is a direct threat to religious liberty – to business owners, employees, religious entities,” said Jim Campbell of the Alliance Defense Fund. Maggie Gallagher, President of National Organization for Marriage, is blunt: “Christian adoption agencies will be driven out of the public square, which has already happened in Massachusetts, Washington D.C. and Illinois. There will be fewer parents for troubled children.

SCOTUS Blog has listed Brewer v. Diaz as its Petition of the Day. Links to Center for Arizona Policy Amicus prepared by Alliance Defending Freedom Attorneys.

Jim Campbell appeared on Vermont Public Radio to discuss the Wildflower Inn litigation. | MP3 audio 2:50 mins

Jim Campbell appeared on the Georgene Rice Show to discuss the Wildflower Inn Case and other issues. | MP3 audio 10:49 mins

Jim Campbell appeared on the Zeb Bell Show to discuss the Wildflower Inn Case and other issues. | MP3 audio 11:12 mins

Jim Campbell appeared on the Drew Mariani Show to discuss the Wildflower Inn Case and other issues. | MP3 audio 11:16 mins

Vermont NPR (includes audio): Their attorney, Jim Campbell, works for an Arizona-based religious advocacy group called Alliance Defending Freedom, and he still sees the lawsuit as an attack on their constitutional rights. “Every American should be free to live and do business consistent with their deeply held religious beliefs,” Campbell says. “And legal attacks like this one are not pursuits for justice but attempts to coerce and police a private business’s expressions.” But Campbell also says the innkeepers were eager to move on with their business and lives, without violating state law.

AP: Jim Campbell of the Alliance Defending Freedom says an employee acting without the owners’ OK said Katherine Baker and Ming Linsley couldn’t hold their event at the Lyndonville facility.

91.5 KJZZ (includes audio): James Campbell of the Alliance Defending Freedom notes the appellate court ruling hinged on the inability of gays to marry in the state, which he says sets a precedent. “If it’s irrational to give that benefit to only legal spouses and not to an unmarried partner or friend, then it is also irrational to also give other benefits to a legal spouse or not to an unmarried friend or partner,” Campbell said.

Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a friend-of-the-court brief Friday with the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Center for Arizona Policy in defense of Arizona laws that offer benefits for married state employees only to married state employees.

Jim Campbell on the Don Kroah Show to discuss the Elane Photography ruling. | MP3 audio 11:22 mins

ABC (Jim Campbell appears in the video) (5/9/12): But Jim Campbell with the Alliance Defense Fund doesn’t see it that way. For the organization fighting to keep marriage between a man and a woman, President Obama’s comment was a big surprise. “It is really surprising because in the past President Obama has so firmly spoken about how fatherless homes harm children in society, yet today’s statement is a contradiction that would create even more fatherless and motherless homes,” Campbell said.

Baptist Press: Jim Campbell, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund — which defends traditional marriage laws — said Obama’s announcement could negatively impact families. “The president has spoken eloquently about how fatherless homes often hurt children and society,” Campbell said. “Today’s statement is a tragic contradiction that promotes the creation of even more fatherless and motherless homes.”

Julie Pace One News Now (AP): Jim Campbell, litigation staff counsel with Alliance Defense Fund, sees obvious contradiction in the president’s announcement today. “This shows that the Obama administration doesn’t understand the public purpose of marriage. Marriage — the lifelong, faithful union of one man and one woman — is the building block of a thriving society. It’s not something that politicians should attempt to redefine for political purposes. “The president has spoken eloquently about how fatherless homes often hurt children and society. Today’s statement is a tragic contradiction that promotes the creation of even more fatherless and motherless homes.

Lisa Leff at Mercury News (AP): The Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal organization that is defending Proposition 8 in court, said Wednesday that the president’s position “shows that the Obama administration doesn’t understand the public purpose of marriage.” “Marriage—the lifelong, faithful union of one man and one woman—is the building block of a thriving society. It’s not something that politicians should attempt to redefine for political purposes,” staff counsel Jim Campbell said.

LA Times: An anti-gay marriage group, Alliance Defense Fund, released a statement saying Obama “doesn’t understand the public purpose of marriage.” “Marriage — the lifelong, faithful union of one man and one woman — is the building block of a thriving society,” said litigation staff counsel Jim Campbell. “It’s not something that politicians should attempt to redefine for political purposes. The president has spoken eloquently about how fatherless homes often hurt children and society. Today’s statement is a tragic contradiction that promotes the creation of even more fatherless and motherless homes.”

Washington Times: Religious conservatives also were critical, with Jim Campbell, litigation staff counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, saying the announcement “shows that the Obama administration doesn’t understand the public purpose of marriage. Marriage — the lifelong, faithful union of one man and one woman — is the building block of a thriving society.”

AZFamily.com (includes video): Valley attorney Jim Campbell from the Alliance Defense Fund told 3TV he thinks this will shape up to be a big issue leading up to the election. “The American people are concerned about the issue of marriage,” Campbell said. “They want it to remain the union of a man and a woman.” The Alliance Defense Fund fights against gay marriage nationwide. We asked if Obama’s announcement in support of gay couples will make that fight more difficult. “This is one politician’s view about what he seemingly wants to redefine as marriage. But Americans across the country want to protect the union between man and woman.”

The president has spoken eloquently about how fatherless homes often hurt children and society. Today’s statement is a tragic contradiction that promotes the creation of even more fatherless and motherless homes.

Tulsa Beacon: A spokesman for the Alliance Defense Fund said Hands On Originals has a practice of not doing business with groups that don’t reflect its moral and Christian values. The homosexuals complained to the “human rights commission” and filed a formal charge. A commissioner said that a homosexual business owner could refuse to do work for a Christian but a Christian could not refuse a job for homosexuals. “Americans in the marketplace should not be subject to predatory legal attacks simply for abiding by their beliefs,” said ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Jim Campbell. “The Constitution prohibits the government from forcing business owners to promote messages they disagree with, so the commission should immediately dismiss this complaint. This kind of bullying may be practiced in a dictatorship, but violations of conscience have no place in the United States.”

Gay People’s Chronicle: Viars and OCPM are represented by attorney David Langdon and his law partner JoshuaBolinger of Sharonville, Ohio, and James Campbell from the Alliance Defense Fund of Scottsdale, Arizona. Langdon authored the 2004 amendment the new proposal would repeal. The Alliance Defense Fund fights against LGBT equality around the nation. On the complaint, Viarslists her address as the office of the anti-gay Citizens for Community Values in Sharonville, a Cincinnati suburb. CCV organized and funded the 2004 marriage ban campaign.

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Jim Campbell on the Rod Arquette Show. | MP3 audio 6:52 mins

News from Missouri Family Policy Council: Jim Campbell, staff counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, deplored the judge’s attack on religious freedom. “The government should not be able to force a private Christian organization to use its property in a way that would violate its own religious beliefs. Religious groups have the right to use their private property in ways that are consistent with their religious convictions.”

OneNewsNow.com: “No provision of the Minnesota Constitution gives individuals the right to redefine marriage and force that definition on everyone else,” says Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) attorney Jim Campbell. “The union between husband and wife benefits society, especially children, in unique and special ways that could not be duplicated by any other relationship.”

Michael Foust at Baptist Press: Jim Campbell, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund — which is representing the Methodist group — said the cases prove that there is harm to religious liberty when states legalize gay “marriage” or civil unions or pass broad legislation incorporating sexual orientation into non-discrimination laws. “When people hear that their legislature is considering a law like this and they think, ‘What’s the harm?’ they need to realize that there is this direct threat to religious liberty — to business owners, employees, religious entities and people who attend all those religious entities,” Campbell told Baptist Press. “These four cases are a good demonstration of that. People who are concerned about religious liberty should be concerned about these legal developments.”

LifeSiteNews: “He said this isn’t a case of religious liberty, which is simply not true,” Jim Campbell, who represented the resort and serves as litigation staff counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), told LifeSiteNews.com. “What this case involves at its core is the rights of a religious group to use its property in a way that is consistent with its religious beliefs.” Campbell said most people will find Metzger’s belief that the state can force a religious facility to violate its conscience “a very scary concept. If that is a principle of the law, then essentially the government can cast aside religion if it deems something more important.” Campbell called Metzger’s ruling “an error of Constitutional law.”

Examiner.com: However the response was: “The government should not be able to force a private Christian organization to use its property in a way that would violate its own religious beliefs,” said Jim Campbell, a litigation staff counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund. “Religious groups have the right to use their private property in a way that is consistent with their beliefs. That right, protected by both the New Jersey and U.S. constitutions, obviously trumps any law enacted by the state’s legislature.”

Manasquan.patch.com: When asked if they would appeal the decision, the association’s attorney, Jim Campbell, of the Alliance Defense Fund based in Scottsdale, Ariz., said his client was discussing “all options.” Campbell added that he still believed that the association was on the right side of the law. “The government should not be able to force a private religious organization to use its property in a way that would violate its own beliefs,” Campbell said by telephone on Friday. “That’s why Ocean Grove is asserting its constitutional rights and that’s why Ocean Grove ultimately believes that the law is on its side.”

One News Now: Jim Campbell, an attorney representing the church, said the decision may be appealed. He said, “The government should not be able to force a private Christian organization to use its property in a way that would violate its own religious beliefs.”

NECN: Attorneys representing the church said they were reviewing the decision for possible next steps. “The government should not be able to force a private Christian organization to use its property in a way that would violate its own religious beliefs,” Jim Campbell, an attorney representing the church, said in a statement Thursday. | Via Religion Clause Blog

WZTV FOX 17 (ADF attorneys Byron Babione and Jim Campbell in the video) Sky Arnold: Attorneys who are fighting a controversial new state law want to see e-mails and documents of those who supported it . . .

Thomson Reuters : The Supreme Court of California appeared sympathetic to allowing gay marriage opponents to defend the state’s same-sex wedding ban in court, a crucial step in a case that could set national precedent . . . For the opponents of gay marriage: James Campbell of Alliance Defense Fund; Charles Cooper, Nicole Moss, Jesse Panuccio, David Thompson and Peter Patterson of Cooper & Kirk; Andrew Pugno; Brian Raum.

ADF attorney Jim Campbell at The Christian Post: Thus, like the schoolyard bully who hides his fear by creating it in others, the groups attacking marriage display a front of academic superiority, knowing all the while that a breach of that façade will expose the alarming void within.

Thomson Reuters: For the gay marriage opponents: Charles Cooper, David Thompson, Howard Nielson, Nicole Moss and Peter Patterson of Cooper and Kirk; Andrew Pugno of the Law Offices of Andrew Pugno; Brian Raum and James Campbell of the Alliance Defense Fund.

Thomson Reuters: For the gay marriage opponents: Charles Cooper, David Thompson, Howard Nielson, Nicole Moss and Peter Patterson of Cooper and Kirk; Andrew Pugno of the Law Offices of Andrew Pugno; Brian Raum and James Campbell of the Alliance Defense Fund.

Burlington Free Press: “They’re advocating for a lot of changes in the name of tolerance,” said Jim Campbell, an attorney with the conservative Alliance Defense Fund. “Yet ironically the tolerance is not returned, for people of faith who don’t agree with their agenda.” . . . [Evan Wolfson] added: “There’s been a shift in the moral understanding of people — that exclusion from marriage and anti-gay prejudice is wrong. Positions that wouldn’t have been questioned in the past are now being held up to the light.”

Reuters Legal: For the proponents of the ban: Charles Cooper, David Thompson, Howard Nielson, Nicole Moss and Peter Patterson of Cooper and Kirk; Andrew Pugno of the Law Offices of Andrew P. Pugno; Brian Raum and James Campbell of the Alliance Defense Fund.

ADF attorney Jim Campbell appeared on the Zeb Bell Show to discuss the Utah Highway Patrol Cross Memorials. | MP3 audio 14:43 mins

Jim Campbell at the Speak Up Movement Church Blog: Last week, Americans United for Separation of Church of State accused the Alliance Defense Fund of working at “cross-purposes” by defending, in a petition recently filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, the Utah Highway Patrol Association’s secular use of roadside crosses to memorialize fallen troopers who died while serving the people of Utah. AU’s alleged outrage, its spokesperson claimed, stemmed from its unfounded assertion that the Alliance Defense Fund tried to “secularize [the] Christian symbol” of a Latin cross through its legal arguments.
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Bay Windows: “Yes on 8″ attorneys, led by Charles Cooper, Anthony Pugno, and Alliance Defense Fund’s James Campbell, said Walker’s use of the clip violated an order from the U.S. Supreme Court and a policy of the 9th Circuit against broadcast of district court trial proceedings.

One News Now: Walden, and attorney Jim Campbell recently argued on behalf of the former federal government employee. “In this case, Marsha Walden was a counselor working for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She referred a client seeking same-sex relationship counseling because she realized that providing that counseling would conflict with her sincerely held religious beliefs,” Campbell explains. “Unfortunately, she was terminated for that decision.”

SIFY.com (AP): Attorney Jim Campbell said she was instructed to tell the client she didn’t have the experience to handle the case, even though she had extensive background in helping clients with relationship issues. “She was targeted for mistreatment based on her religious beliefs,” said Campbell, a lawyer with the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative religious rights organization that took the case. “It’s not her burden to come up with an excuse. She was offered one dishonest option — to say she didn’t have the expertise to handle the case — and she refused it.”

CBN: Attorney Jim Campbell said she was instructed to tell the client she didn’t have the experience to handle the case, even though she had extensive background in helping clients with relationship issues. “She was targeted for mistreatment based on her religious beliefs,” said Campbell, a lawyer with the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative religious rights organization that took the case. “It’s not her burden to come up with an excuse. She was offered one dishonest option – to say she didn’t have the expertise to handle the case – and she refused it.”

Bradenton.com: Attorney Jim Campbell said she was instructed to tell the client she didn’t have the experience to handle the case, even though she had extensive background in helping clients with relationship issues. “She was targeted for mistreatment based on her religious beliefs,” said Campbell, a lawyer with the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative religious rights organization that took the case. “It’s not her burden to come up with an excuse. She was offered one dishonest option – to say she didn’t have the expertise to handle the case – and she refused it.”

AP: “She was targeted for mistreatment based on her religious beliefs,” said Campbell, a lawyer with the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative religious rights organization that took the case. “It’s not her burden to come up with an excuse. She was offered one dishonest option – to say she didn’t have the expertise to handle the case – and she refused it.”

ADF attorney available to media after defending Christian counselor who referred client seeking advice on same-sex relationship to colleague

ADF attorney Jim Campbell appeared on Drive Time with Bill Bunkley to discuss this: ADF: House on firm ground to defend DOMA. | MP3 audio 11:41 mins

One News Now: “The House has indicated that it’s going to take some time to determine its legal strategy, and that soon thereafter it will be filing motions to get involved in all of the current cases that are challenging the federal Defense of Marriage Act,” says Campbell.

ADF attorney Jim Campbell appeared on the Zeb Bell Show to discuss the situation. | MP3 audio 10:26 mins | Related: ADF statement in response to DOJ letter on Defense of Marriage Act

WorldNetDaily: ” . . . “Politicians should not be able to nullify a democratic act of the people by refusing their duty to defend it,” said ADF Litigation Counsel Jim Campbell. “The people of California have the right to be defended, and thus the official proponents of Proposition 8 must have standing to defend that law. “Otherwise, the governor and attorney general will succeed in indirectly invalidating a measure that they had no power to strike down directly. With this recent development, the Alliance Defense Fund and the rest of the Protectmarriage.com legal team remain confident that the right of the people of California to protect marriage in their constitution will ultimately be honored,” he said. [Robert Tyler of Advocates for Faith and Freedom also quoted]

ADF attorney Jim Campbell appeared on the radio to discuss the Obama administration’s refusal to defend the Federal DOMA. | The Hugh Hewitt Show; MP3 audio 8:32 mins | Janet Mefferd Show;  MP3 audio 19:17 mins

IOL News: Angered conservatives are vowing to make same-sex marriage a front-burner election issue following the Obama administration’s announcement that it will no longer defend the federal law denying recognition to gay married couples . . . Staff counsel Jim Campbell of Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative legal group, said: “The ripple effect nationwide will be to galvanise supporters of marriage.” [This article is widely reprinted, see e.g., Washington Post]

ADF attorney Jim Campbell appeared on the Drew Mariani Show with Wendy Wiese to discuss the litigation. | MP3 audio 12:37 min

Christian Post: Jim Campbell, an Alliance Defense Fund legal counsel, believes that Protectmarriage.com should be able to defend the measure.”Politicians should not be able to nullify a democratic act of the people by refusing their duty to defend it,” he said in a January statement. “The people of California have the right to be defended, and thus the official proponents of Proposition 8 must have standing to defend that law.”