SAN DIEGO – Supporters of marriage equality will rally later today outside the Federal Courthouse in downtown San Diego, the day before the U.S. Supreme Court conducts the oral hearing in the appeals case involving California’s Proposition 8.

WASHINGTON – Attorneys and plaintiffs in the historical legal challenge against California’s Proposition 8, the state law that took away marriage equality in the Golden State, are brimming with supreme confidence ahead of the oral hearing on Tuesday morning at the nation’s high court.

The nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday will grill plaintiffs and defendants of Prop 8 as well as the Obama Administration on the lower court ruling by federal Judge Vaughn Walker that the state law is unconstitutional. That ruling was upheld by the Ninth District Court of Appeals.

Audio emerged Wednesday of folk singer Michelle Shocked’s performance at a San Francisco club on Sunday night, in which her anti-gay remarks have led to a firestorm of criticism among the LGBT community and its allies, and led to an abrupt end to her U.S. tour.

WASHINGTON – The highly respected American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) declared today that it supported same-sex marriage because it was in the best interest of gays and lesbians who want to marry as well as their families.