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The Los Angeles Times editorial board says, "The trial in San Francisco delivered an unforgettable lesson in what Proposition 8 and the freedom to marry really mean."
Read MoreDahlia Lithwick: "Judge Walker's decision to overturn Prop 8 is factual, well-reasoned, and powerful."
Read MoreIn this video from CNN's "Rick's List," Freedom to Marry's Evan Wolfson debates Family Research Council's Tony Perkins about Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling in the federal Proposition 8 trial.
Read MoreA federal judge’s ruling Wednesday striking down California’s ban on the freedom to marry is a historic and possibly pivotal legal victory for gay rights advocates, but the decision also poses a formidable threat to President Barack Obama’s strategy of relegating divisive social issues to the back burner.
Evan Wolfson: "His position on Prop. 8 has always been clear. What has not been clear is how he squares his position for equality with his refusal to embrace actual equality in marriage."
Evan Wolfson puts yesterday's historic Prop 8 ruling in perspective and highlights the work still to be done: "...to maximize the chances both of winning on appeal and winning at the ballot-box, we now must make as compelling a case for the freedom to marry in the court of public opinion as in the court of law."
Read MoreEvan Wolfson puts yesterday's historic Prop 8 ruling in perspective and highlights the work still to be done: "...to maximize the chances both of winning on appeal and winning at the ballot-box, we now must make as compelling a case for the freedom to marry in the court of public opinion as in the court of law."
Read MoreThe New York Times editorial board: Until Wednesday, the thousands of same-sex couples who have married did so because a state judge or Legislature allowed them to. The nation’s most fundamental guarantees of freedom, set out in the Constitution, were not part of the equation. That has changed with the historic decision by a federal judge in California, Vaughn Walker, that said his state’s ban on the freedom to marry violated the 14th Amendment’s rights to equal protection and due process of law.
Read MoreIn a major victory for gay rights activists, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday that a voter initiative banning the freedom to marry in California violated the Constitution's equal protection and due process rights clauses.
Read MoreThe U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California today issued its decision in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the federal constitutional challenge to Proposition 8. The ruling is a blistering opinion that pulls together all of the developments of the three-week trial in a striking decision finding that the amendment violates both the Equal Protection and the Due Process clauses of the U.S. Constitution.
Read MoreStatement from Evan Wolfson on today's District Court historic ruling in Perry v. Schwarzenegger striking down the discriminatory "Proposition 8".
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