Gay Marriage Showdown Begins in California

abcnews.go.com — "What Proposition 8 accomplishes, if it were upheld by this court," Shannon P. Minter, lead counsel for those petitioning the court to invalidate Proposition 8, told the justices, "is to establish the constitutional principle that a majority can take away a fundamental right from a group defined as a suspect class" that has already suffered a histo