tidbits of Prop 8

"No one sensible is against giving homosexuals the rights of contract or inheritance or hospital visits. There’s nobody that wants to deny them that." -- Rush Limbaugh

Courtney Milan's 'truncated transcript'

KAGAN: Because, see, they’re still gay or lesbian. They’re still out there, having relationships with each other. They’re not going to start procreating.

(Boom! Parthenogenesis powers acquired when you remain unmarried! Actually that's sort of myth-etymologically reasonable.)

Favorite typo so far: the Supreme Curt.

Favorite part of actual transcript:

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Outside of the -- outside of the marriage context, can you think of any other rational basis, reason, for a State using sexual orientation as a factor in denying homosexuals benefits or imposing burdens on them? Is there any other rational decision-making that the Government could make? Denying them a job, not granting them benefits of some sort, any other decision?
MR. COOPER: Your Honor, I cannot.

Pushing marriage as the main queer agenda is imperfect because we don't all live like that: what I want is an expansion of what we think family is, and legal flexibility that we can use to protect different aspects of different kinds of relationships. But, look at that, this fight is helping to move us somewhere I really want to go.