Everyone who’s been paying attention to the news for the past week knows that federal judge Vaughn Walker overturned the California state constitutional amendment known as Proposition 8 which stated that within that state, marriage would be defined between a man and a woman.

What some of you guys may not realize is that I think the judge is wrong. And I think I have good reasons to think so. But I’m not going to go into them here. If you want to know a little bit about that, I suggest watching the Youtube video I’ve linked below, which starts about 10-11 minutes in. For the purposes of this post, I just want to point out something I realized this week while talking with various people about what happened.

NoH8 posted their latest PSA this week (embedded over the fold), and it had two effects on me. First I thought, Wow, that’s a good PSA. It gets their point across, does it in a compelling way, and summarizes the best argument I’ve heard for state-licensed same-sex marriage. The second thought that ran through my mind was… That’s the best argument I’ve heard for state-licensed same sex marriage. Even David Boies, the attorney for the plaintiffs in the Proposition 8 case in California used it as his main argument… and that’s it?