Professor Matthew J. Franck in the Public Discourse, says the Prop8 decision conveys the "palpable sense that one is being mugged by a progressive." When the judge himself is an advocate "even falsehood and fallacy have a decent chance." There's one consolation, "albeit a small one," that Walker's opinions shows "the best arguments advocates for a constitutional 'right' to same-sex marriage can muster are so transparently bad."

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