SPENCER STIER, the son of one of two couples who successfully challenged Proposition 8, California's ban on gay marriage.
On CBS's "Face the Nation," Theodore B. Olson, the conservative lawyer who challenged Proposition 8, and Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council and an opponent of same-sex marriage, will discuss the outcomes.
Chad Griffin, the president of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which challenged Proposition 8, noted that polls in the past year had shown public support for same-sex marriage steadily increasing, a significant change from just a decade ago.
The four plaintiffs in the first case, who challenged Proposition 8, the California measure banning same-sex marriage, are appropriately earnest and striving, young or heading into middle age: a lesbian couple with jobs at a nonprofit and with the county health system, raising four sons; a gay couple, one a personal trainer and fitness expert, the other managing a theatre company.
In legal papers filed last week, lawyers challenging Proposition 8 took note of the "serious, lasting, and irreparable damage to gay men and lesbians who wish to marry" caused by this extended timetable and called on the federal court to lift its injunction.
Within a day of the election, the NRA was talking about challenging Proposition 63 and related state laws before the courts.
Two same-sex couples challenged Proposition 8 in federal court, and by the time their suit reached the justices, two lower courts had declared the ban unconstitutional.
The American Foundation for Equal Rights was formed to file a federal lawsuit to challenge Proposition 8, and filmmakers Ben Cotner and Ryan White approached the organization to make a documentary about that process.
I reaffirmed that promise on an Oscar stage months later, we marched on Washington to demand action, and I got to work helping build the American Foundation for Equal Rights AFERR) in order to challenge Proposition 8 in federal court.
By way of some contrast, a SXSW regular, danah boyd -- the perpetually lower-cased internet sociologist (pictured above) -- was gratifyingly the originator of challenging propositions.
