The Prop 8 Trial: Day Eleven

Timothy Kincaid sums up yesterday's testimony. The defense's second witness was called:

[David Blankenhorn, president of the Institute for American Values, a non-profit think tank that focuses on fatherhood, marriage, child rearing, child well being, and family structure] testified that research shows that the ideal family relationship for a child is a biological mother and father in low-conflict marriage. 

Kincaid interjects:

[H]e’s likely correct. And a principled argument could be made that these are the only family forms that society should reward with marriage. But it doesn’t. It rewards remarriage of widows and widowers, divorced people with children, the childless, the elderly, and indeed absolutely every other less-than-ideal coupling provided that they are opposite-sex. The question is not whether biological parents are a smidgen better than two mothers (a position that could probably be made), but why two mothers (who are better than, say, a mother and stepfather) are not provided with marriage.

Talbot thinks that David Boies' cross examination of the defense's first witness "was a little like watching your cat play with his food before he eats it." The Prop 8 Trial Tracker informs us that today is likely to be the last day of testimony. There will be a couple week break before closing arguments.