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U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit

Sep. 21, 2010

Brief: Ruling Ignored Marriage's True Purpose

Defenders of Prop 8 say Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker blinded himself to marriage's true purpose: procreation, and wrongly defamed same-sex marriage foes as bigots.

By John Roemer

Daily Journal Staff Writer

Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker of San Francisco blinded himself to marriage's true purpose - procreation - and wrongly defamed same-sex marriage foes as bigots, Proposition 8's defenders contended in the first salvo of their challenge to his ruling at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Prop. 8 defenders, headed by an intervenor, state Senate Minority Leader D...

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