Kristof writes rather sarcastically about the "pelvic politics" of recent controversy. The furor over the Obama Administration's inclusion of mandatory coverage of birth control as "preventive care" under the Affordable Care Act, stating: "I may not be as theologically sophisticated as American bishops, but I had thought that Jesus talked more about helping the poor than about banning contraceptives."

The court ruled by 2-1 that the disparate treatment of traditional marriages and gay unions violated the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause.

According to Prop 8 Legal Defense General Counsel Andy Pugno, this decision "is completely out of step with every other federal appellate and Supreme Court decision in American history on the subject of marriage." ProtectMarriage.com will immediately file its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

"It is outrageous that judges continue to disregard the will of 7 million voters who voted to protect the centrality and integrity of marriage for children and society," May said.

Sexual orientation is much more accurately thought of in the category of a conditioned (and often variable) preference than a determined biological condition.

Most researchers now accept that sexual orientation (the predominant direction of sexual attraction one feels) is the result of a complex interaction in which nature, nurture and choice all play a part. But whether one acts on those feelings by having same sex relations is actually a matter of personal choice.