The Obama administration proposed a weird (and kind of clever)
argument for legalizing gay marriage that would effectively
legalize it in eight more states.  But not one justice seemed to
buy that argument when the high court was hearing arguments
Wednesday on California's gay marriage ban Proposition 8,
SCOTUSBlog reports.  "It is an understatement to say that the
justices were less than enamoured with the government's
argument," SCOTUSBlog's John Bursch writes.  To be sure, the
government's argument is a little weird. It says states that
allow civil unions or domestic partnerships for gays should have
to allow gay marriage too.  The denial of marriage to same-sex
couples, particularly when a state "grants same-sex partners all
the substantive rights of marriage, violates equal protection,"
the Obama administration wrote in its "friend of court brief" in
the Prop 8 case.  However, states that don't even give gays the
right to a civil union would not have to grant them marriage
rights.  John Roberts, Anthony