Attorney Theodore Olson (center) shakes hands with Proposition 8 opponents July 2 after a news conference at the Federal Building in San Francisco. Attorneys behind the federal court challenge to California’s voter-approved gay-marriage ban argued at a pretrial hearing that by stripping gays of the right to wed, Prop. 8 runs afoul of the constitutional requirement that the government should treat its citizens equally absent a compelling reason not to do so. AP Photo: Russel A. Daniels
