There was interesting testimony in the Prop 8 Trial going on. Full summery here... but I was surprised by this...
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In some of the most dramatic evidence presented to date, Professor Segura commented upon a number of documents that provided a shocking glimpse of just how deeply the Catholic and Mormon churches were involved in supporting Prop 8 and intertwined with the official pro-Prop 8 campaign. "One document sent by executive director of the Conference of Catholic Bishops to bishops in California thanked the Catholic Conference for its "unusual" efforts in supporting Prop 8 and applauded the Mormon church for its "financial, organizational, and managerial contributions" to the campaign." Other documents detailed the Mormon Church's extensive collaboration with the campaign, including mobilizing more than 20,000 volunteers and coordinating messaging and fundraising. Professor Segura testified that this level of coordination among powerful religious groups to target a particular group was unprecedented.
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The legal arguments against Prop 8 basically turn on if the proposition was motivated by animosity against a minority - which would involve the abrogation of the 14th amendment of the US Constitution. So the groups who wrote the Proposition are now arguing it was not motivated by any bad feelings towards gays. In fact, their defense has been that gays are already well placed as a non-minority and therefore discrimination cannot be the reason that they pushed Proposition 8. Unfortunately (for them- although good for Ed and I) there is a ton of their own evidence, dispositions and video records that it was motivated against sinners and faggots.