"This is the first time an initiative has been used to take away a fundamental right from a suspect class," said Ray Marshall, an California NAACP attorney representing organizations that had filed briefs asking the court to strike down Prop 8. Evan Wolfson said he was "very disappointed" to hear some of the justices suggest the only loss for gay couples was use of the word "marriage." That, he said, "really minimizes the harm that exclusion from marriage and the selective denial of fundamental rights inflicts on gay people." [Link]