Defending Prop 8 is a lost cause. In fact, California is a lost cause.
The only vote in California that counts these days for people with traditional values is voting with ones feet to get the heck out of the State.
I aint leaving until I am illegal. And then I will stay anyway. Heheh. My post-apocalyptic career aspiration is to be Emperor Norton III, Warlord of NorCal After People Figure That A Free Republic Was A Better Choice Than Nanny State Despotism Leading To Anarchy And Feudalism, Oh Well Too Late, You Sorry Bunch Of Starry-Eyed Drooling Dopers.
Prop 8 WON as far as the State of California is concerned; this is being tried OUTSIDE of California. Remember, the Supreme Ct of California overwhelmingly found that Prop 8 is valid. So the sodomite anarchists had to go elsewhere for a sympathetic ear.
And the fact that this is being tried outside of California is Prop 8's biggest strength right now.
Newsflash: this is in the federal courts, not the state courts. If Prop 8, a state constitutional amendment, is held as unconstitutional on appeal (it's at the 9th circus now, then off to SCOTUS) it'll effect EVERY state with marriage defined as being only between one man and one woman.