Professor Michael Wald is quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle regarding the arguments he filed with the California Supreme Court supporting same-sex marriage. 

The final stage in the campaign to win same-sex marriage rights in court may be under way with a flurry of rulings in the past week calling for equal rights for gay and lesbian couples.

And two federal judges found an unlikely source of support – the writings of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who has warned in dissenting opinions that the high court was sanctioning an unprecedented and unwarranted expansion of the right to marry.

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But Michael Wald, a Stanford law professor who has filed arguments supporting same-sex marriage with the California Supreme Court, said Scalia's provocative writings were “bound to come back and haunt” him.

“If you're sitting in Utah knowing that you're going to get a lot of flak” for a ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, Wald said, then quoting one of the court's foremost conservatives “gives you a lot of protection you wouldn't otherwise have.”