SFGate - Prop. 8 backers splinter as court fight resumes

[Ioo]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/23/BA21149LUL.DTL&type=printable

The group that persuaded California voters this month to pass Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage, now is fighting its friends as well as its foes.

Other conservative groups that loudly backed Prop. 8 are being targeted as too extreme and off-putting by ProtectMarriage.com, which put the constitutional amendment on the Nov. 4 ballot and hopes to help persuade the state Supreme Court to uphold the measure.
<<Related editorial: The ugly backlash over Proposition 8.>>

"We represent the people who got things done, who got Prop. 8 passed," said Andrew Pugno, general counsel for the Yes on Prop. 8 campaign. "An important part of defending Prop. 8 is eliminating arguments not helpful to our concerns."

Pugno, for example, persuaded the Supreme Court last week to bar the Campaign for California Families from intervening in the court case over the validity of Prop. 8 and the same-sex marriage ban.

"That organization represents the extreme fringe and is not representative of the coalition that got it passed," Pugno said. "They didn't even support Prop. 8 until sometime in the summer."

[Hekate]

1. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of folks. I hope they splinter into toothpicks over their ideology.

But most of all I hope the Governator, the California Supreme Court, and the Legislature all agree that no way in hell should backers from outside the state be allowed to buy an election the way this one was.

This Will Not Stand.

Hekate

[amdezurik]

2. ah, feel the love from the hate side :)

Pugno loved and used CCF right up until he didn't need them any more. Typical of that type of soul-less drone :)

[xchrom]

3. i smell irony. nt