In a ruling that dooms the efforts of the Prop h8 proponents to get California’s Attorney General to defend Proposition 8 in federal court, or get the Governator to make AG Brown defend it in federal court, the California Supreme Court on Wednesday denied without comment the appeal of the Pacific Justice Institute from the local court’s decision that state officials cannot be forced to defend laws they choose not to defend.

On the increasing desperation of antigay people.

The rotten image of the suburban hootchie ma — and by ma, I mean “Hummer Mom” as the lads called her in Livermore — has reached its apotheosis, if you will, in the tawdry and torrid tale of Christine Shreeve Hubbs. It’s as if she became a rite of passage for these teen boys, as they passed her contact information along to younger teammates and brothers as their need became, um, acute.

Why do we let Mormon wives move in next door? And America is worried about married gays and lesbians in on-base housing? What about precious offspring whose lives have been ruined by this heterosexual monster?

Cheeks takes on apathy in the gay male community toward Prop 8 and marriage equality.

Here’s the text of the order from the Ninth Circuit, vacating the previous schedule and asking parties to address the issue of standing. No marriages this week, it appears….

The proponents of Proposition 8 — the folks who got the civil right to marry stripped from gay and lesbian couples at the 2008 ballot box — are now petitioning Governor Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Brown to defend Prop 8 in court. According to reports from the offices of the two highest law enforcement officials in California, calls to their offices are running strongly in favor of H8. Can you please call Arnold as well as Jerry Brown and ask them to continue to stand up for equality?

The National Organization for Marriage launched a bus tour earlier this summer to convince people that same-sex marriages are terrible. Problem is, around the world, courts and legislatures are finding the exact opposite.

Do the proponents of Proposition 8 have standing to pursue their appeal in the 9th Circuit or before the US Supreme Court? The answer to that question, it turns out, is anything but obvious.

The hard-core homophobes in the House GOP caucus have revealed themselves, and they are a sorry lot indeed. These are the people American history books will cast into the dustbin: bigots, haters, the sorry folks who see civil rights as a zero-sum game. If you get your civil rights, I lose mine.

Here’s the actual text from Vaughn Walker’s court.