Prop. 8

After a judge rejected twice their arguments that Attorney General Jerry Brown's ballot title wording for Prop. 8 was biased, the committee promoting the measure said Monday it would seek no further legal action in the matter.

Prop. 8, if approved by the voters in November would amend the California Constitution to state that marriage was only between a man and a woman.

Supporters of the initiative argued that the attorney general's wording that the measure, that "...(Prop. 8) would "eliminates (the) right of same-sex couples to marry.

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Court papers were filed Tuesday asking the California Supreme Court to reject a bid to remove Prop. 8, the so-called Defense of Marriage initiative, from the state's November general election ballot.

Two weeks ago civil rights groups filed a petition with the court asking it to remove the controversial initiative from the ballot in light of the court's May decision to legalize gay marriage across the Golden State.

But according to Howard Mintz in Tuesday's Mercury News, attorneys for the Alliance Defense Fund and Protect Marriage filed a 46-page petition asking the court to leave Prop. 8 on the ballot.

Conservative commentator and former presidential candidate Gary Bauer opined Monday in Politico that California's Prop. 8, the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, might actually help conservative candidates and causes come November's general election.

The measure, which seeks to amend the California Constitution so that it recognizes marriages as being only between a man and woman, has not been very good chances of passage by Golden State pundits, especially following May's California Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex nuptials.

But Bauer thinks otherwise: