Court Unmoved By Gay Marriage Foe

Here’s the San Francisco Chronicle report about Idaho’s legal fight to keep its ban on same-sex marriage:

An opponent of same-sex marriage in Idaho and Nevada offered a rationale Monday for allowing only straight couples to marry - that it promotes a child’s “bonding right” with the biological mother and father. But the argument apparently failed to convince a federal appeals court in San Francisco. Idaho appears to be “using another group as a scapegoat … denying children (of same-sex couples) those benefits in order to send some vague message,” said Judge Marsha Berzon , part of a three-member panel that heard the two cases at the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals . Attorney Monte Stewart , defending the voter-approved laws of both states, told the court the laws send a clear message to both men and women that “if you’re going to … bring a child into this life, do it in a stable, committed relationship”/ Bob Egelko , San Francisco Chronicle. More here . (AP Photo: Judges Stephen Reinhardt and Marsha Berzon listen to arguments on banning same-sex marriage)

Thoughts?