The Gay Marriage Circus in Civic Center Plaza

Pro and anti Proposition 8 advocates were out in force Thursday morning in Civic Center Plaza...



...many of them watching a big screen live broadcast of the arguments at the California Supreme Court across the street on McAllister.



The majority of the crowd consisted of gay marriage proponents who wanted Proposition 8 overturned by the court, but on the fringes of the crowd there were small groups arguing with the anti-gay marriage advocates...



...most of whom seemed to be wearing red T-shirts emblazoned with Marriage 1 Man 1 Woman on the front and presumably the same message in Chinese on the back.



In San Francisco's City Hall, with its "Spiraling Echoes" soundscape bouncing around...



...there were three young people with red T-shirts standing around the Harvey Milk statue which seemed beyond irony.



The questions from the Supreme Court judges were not particularly promising for those who are hoping they will rule Proposition 8 unconstitutional...



...but that didn't stop the religious zealots from carrying their "Stop Judicial Tyranny" signage around...



...in the middle of the gay rights crowd.



Favorite signage of the day goes to Jack Fertig, above, who in another incarnation was a gay man working at the Jewish Community Center who became Sister Boom Boom and helped found the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Thirty-plus years down the road, Mr. Fertig has become a Muslim for the last six years, and in that role was pointing out the hypocrisy of Christians demanding religious laws trump all other. "Church and state need to be separated completely," he told me, to which I replied "Amen."