Oh, the lulz.
Charles Cooper, the lawyer for the Proposition 8 backers, initially said the court could "distinguish between same-sex couples who cannot, ah, ah, procreate without the intervention of a third party. Compared to opposite-sex couples who can procreate, who can have unwanted pregnancies." The idea, spelled out elsewhere, is essentially that heterosexual couples need marriage for self-protection. Since most of them can make babies all too easily, they need the state's carrot and stick to make sure they raise them together and are legally bound. Gay couples have to put more effort into having children, goes the rest of the argument, so they don't need the bond of marriage to whip them into shape. (emphases mine)
And again, I shall let Beaker do the talking:
