No one forced them to sign up – they have taken the time to consider an issue that only 10 years ago they wouldn’t have given a moment’s notice to. Accept the win and move on.

As much as I want to see it overturned, most of those people are from other states and should have no say on a case that is pending that will affect only Californians.

That the Supremes chose to hear and decide the Prop 8 case along with the DOMA case suggests very strongly that the result won’t only affect Californians.

…[B]ut of all the thousands of Republican officeholders and gov’t officials in the past three decades, this is the most and best they can come up with? Really?

With the Republican base becoming smaller, the Religious Right has a deathgrip on the GOP, which believes it can’t afford to offend that largest consistently Republican-voting demographic. The GOP has grown so toxic to LGBT concerns that the Log Cabin Republicans’ efforts to improve the 2012 Republican platform in regard to LG issues triggered a kneejerk backlash that made the platform even worse. So it’s no surprise there isn’t a groundswell of GOP officeholders and candidates who are willing to publicly support anything pro-LGBT.

My guess is the GOP signatories are operating from their own beliefs toward equality, toward the extension of the basically conservative institution of marriage or because they think the GOP will have to embrace at least some LGBT rights and concerns if they don’t want to become a minority party for the next decade or two.

But WTF, not downplaying anyone’s accomplishments, but of all the thousands of Republican officeholders and gov’t officials in the past three decades, this is the most and best they can come up with? Really?

It will come down to other aspects–most possibly “legacy.” Do the justices really want to be found in the scrap heap of history along with the Dred Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Bowers v. Hardwick majorities? (Pope Antonin and his meat puppet are the only ones immune from feeling such embarrassment.)

That means more to these bundles of regal egos (maybe “regal eagles” ;), these “gods” in robes, than what some piss-ant has-beens (Whitman–a never-was if there ever was) think.

Assuming the SCOTUS grants the proponents standing. Otherwise we’re going to have a big fat mess on our hands here in California.

Having said that, I think that the SCOTUS specifically added standing to the issues to be argued so they can better clarify that initiative proponents can have standing under certain conditions, not unlike Prop H8.