- Pat Robertson (the last to chime in, perhaps because God took too much time explaining it to him): "Why, homosexuals want to destroy the church"
- Tony Perkins:
Despite Walker 's own biases, which are woven into all 136 pages of the court's opinion, protecting marriage is not discriminatory. Nor is it, as he mocked, an "artifact" rooted in "unfounded stereotypes and prejudices."
(BTW: Perkins had a tough time alluding to Walker's gayness on Face the Nation: he looked the complete homophobe in spite of himself)
- Tim Wildmon, leader of the American Family Association:
"tyrannical, abusive and utterly unconstitutional" and "It's also extremely problematic that Judge [Vaughn] Walker is a practicing homosexual himself. " His situation is no different than a judge who owns a porn studio being asked to rule on an anti-pornography statute."
Wildmon later called for Walker's impeachment.
- Bastion for the sanctity of marriage Newt Gingrich called the ruling a:
"notorious decision" and showed "outrageous disrespect for the Constitution."
- Andy Pugno, general counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund (heretofore known as the Loony Lawyers League), said Walker had
"literally accused the majority of California voters of having ill and discriminatory intent"
- Robert George of the American Principles Project said that same-sex marriage supporters have a "revolutionary sexual ideology."
- The decision shocked Richard Land, past president of the Southern Baptist Convention, so much that he didn't put "God" in his pronouncement:
"This is a grievously serious crisis in how the American people will choose to be governed," he said. "If and when the Supreme Court agrees with the lower court, then the American people will have to decide whether they will insist on continuing to have a government of the people, by the people and for the people, or whether they're going to live under the serfdom of government by the judges, of the judges and for the judges."
- Maggie Gallagher, chairman of National Organization for Marriage (NOM):
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