San Diego Mayor: same-sex marriage stance unfavorable election

San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders Jerry Sanders opposes gay marriage, but he learned that his daughter firm homosexuals before.
January 19 at the trial about the California ban on same-sex marriage, he confirmed that this position change is a decisive moment in his personal life and political career.
The California's second largest city mayor on behalf of two pairs of same-sex couples the attendance of witnesses, the prosecution of the overthrow of the California voters approved ban on same-sex marriage - Proposition 8.
Sanders, a Republican, he said he lost support in the party opposed to the 2008 vote resolution must work harder in order to be re-elected. He said the San Diego Republican leaders even consider suspending his support and sponsorship.
Sanders said: "The election campaign began, many people do not on my side."
The sixth day of judgment, the Federal Court for the first time interrogation ban gay marriage and whether a violation of their constitutional rights.
During the trial, the supporters of the ban has been try to explain that Proposition 8 is not out of the deep-rooted prejudice against homosexuality, this "malicious" make it more difficult for the measure recognized by the Constitution.
Brian Roma (Brian Raum) Proposition 8 supporters lawyer, he challenged Mayor was once opposed to same-sex marriage is how.
Roma asked: "Do not you think their own had gay harbor feelings of hate, is not it?"
Sanders said: "I think he was thinking rooted in bias, but I do not think the performance of emotional hate."
Roma also played a propaganda Proposition 8 produced the ad, the ad showed that the supporters in the voting process in 2008 was the wanton destruction of slander and personal attacks and other acts of violence.
Roma also forcing Sanders admitted that the reason why people are against gay marriage, because they feel the child is best brought up by their own parents.
Sanders responded by saying that this implies that heterosexual marriage is the perfect argument is misleading.
He said: "I have done 26 years police officers have seen a lot of birth parents to child rearing has suffered abuse."
Other testimony, Lee the Beiji Te (Lee Badgett), University of Massachusetts Amherst (Amherst) Campus economist at the University of California, Los Angeles, gay wisdom Mission agencies carried out a study. He said studies have shown that same-sex couples want to enjoy family relations law through marriage.
"Beiji Te said:" Marriage is a recognized by both husband and wife mechanism, so it is with social acceptance. "
Another proposal to support the party's lawyer, Charles Cooper (Charles Cooper) argue that, even if the blank mid-term of the California same-sex marriage, four months before the 2008 electoral approval of Proposition 8 is legal, but registered in 2009 couple number of domestic partnership in 2008.
Cooper asked the Beiji Te: "Do you believe that California's same-sex couples to choose to form a domestic partnership instead of marriage, because they believe that California's domestic partnership is a second-rate?"
Beiji Te said: "I have not seen end up with same-sex couples married another registered domestic partnership."
Cooper with Beiji Te debate for several hours, he tries to after the 2001 Netherlands recognizes same-sex marriages are legal, the traditional heterosexual marriage has been a negative impact. He also used a series of tables shows that the decline of the Netherlands, the marriage rate, divorce rates and single-parent families rate.
But the Beiji Te opposed to this, mutatis mutandis, he said, long before these trends recognize same-sex marriage legal in the Netherlands has officially emerged, and same-sex marriage is irrelevant.
"Beiji Te said:" I feel no need to wait for the possible impact of same-sex marriage, we are already well aware of everything I see I have come to a conclusion: same-sex marriage does not have a negative impact.