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Opponents of same-sex marriage resist it because it amounts to redefining marriage, but also because it  will invite future redefinitions . If we embrace same-sex marriage, they argue, society will have surrendered any reasonable grounds on which to continue forbidding polygamy , for example. In truth, proponents of same-sex marriage have never offered a very good response to this concern. This problem was highlighted at the Supreme Court last month in oral argument over California’s Proposition 8 , the state constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a union of a man and a woman. Surprisingly, the polygamy problem that same-sex marriage presents was raised by an Obama appointee, the liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Sotomayor interrupted the presentation of anti-Prop 8 litigator Theodore Olson to pose the following question: If marriage is a fundamental right in the way proponents of same-sex marriage contend, “what state restrictions could ever exist,” for example,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. , March 28, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A recently discovered cache of e-mails raises the question of whether Vaughn R. Walker , the judge who blocked California’s Proposition 8 which protected traditional marriage , had an inappropriately close relationship with the attorneys who argued the case before him. The legal blog  Patterico’s Ponderings  has published an  e-mail exchange  between Vaughn R. Walker, the judge who blocked California’s Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage, and the law partner of Ted Olson , an attorney who argued against the bill during the trial in 2010 and is currently arguing against it again before the U.S. Supreme Court . Retired Judge Vaughn Walker struck down Proposition 8. The e-mails portray a close relationship between the two men, with Walker seeking to avoid harming Olson’s case, even accidentally, and discussing plans for a Christmastime gathering. According to the e-mails posted by Patterico.c...