Backer of gay marriage ban warned that activists would try to legalize sex with children
By Lisa Leff (CP) – 17 hours ago
SAN FRANCISCO — A proponent of California's same-sex marriage ban warned voters in a letter during the 2008 campaign that gay rights activists would try to legalize sex with children if same-sex couples had the right to wed, according to evidence presented Wednesday in a lawsuit seeking to overturn the measure.
San Francisco resident Hak-Shing William Tam, a defendant in the case, discussed the letter to Chinese-American church groups during a legal deposition taped last month.
Tam wrote that legalizing same-sex marriage was part of a broader gay agenda.
"On their agenda list is: legalize having sex with children," states the letter, which also cautioned that "other states would fall into Satan's hands" if gays weren't stopped from marrying in California.
The trial under way here is the first in a federal court to examine the constitutionality of laws limiting marriage to a man and a woman. Regardless of the outcome, Walker's ruling is likely to make its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where a decision could uphold or overturn bans on gay marriage nationwide.
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