UCLA's Brad Sears on Prop 8
The Advocate
By Rhiza Dizon
May 26, 2009

"I think it's disappointing that the court has decided to uphold Prop. 8. The core of its decision runs counter to its analysis a year ago where it held that the term 'marriage' is extremely important and degrading if not applied to same-sex couples. In this decision, they hold the opposite, that as long as you protect the underlying rights and protections of a family relationship, whether or not you call it 'marriage' is not so important. And therefore when voters took the name away, there is now no significant fraction on same-sex couples written in the California constitution."

-- Brad Sears of UCLA's Williams Institute, a research center for LGBT issues