The second week of the Proposition 8 trial just got under way. San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders has been on the stand for about 10 minutes, and is being questioned by San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera. The Republican is testifying on his transformation on the gay-marriage issue, spurred in large part by the impact of his lesbian daughter, Lisa. Sanders choked up discussing how his daughter came home from college and told him she was lesbian. “I felt overwhelming love,” he said.

Sanders said he previously believed civil unions were adequate rights, but altered his view and went public with his support for same-sex marriage.

Read the rest of Howard Mintz’s San Jose Mercury article here.