Need proof? Starr is, after all, to blame for the fact that for anyone old enough to remember the Clinton administration a cigar is not just a cigar. During the ’90s, Starr’s lurid exposé of President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky’s affair kept America firmly focused on Clinton’s member, taking money and attention away from arguably more important business (Bin Laden was already on the scene back then, for one).

These days, he’s leading the charge for one-penis, one-vagina marriage as the lead council defending Proposition 8 in California, the measure that passed in November, banning marriage for same-sex couples in the state.

For those of you following this whole California marriage thing, you know that Proposition 8 has been challenged in court. Opponents of the measure charge that Proposition 8 is not a limited amendment, but, rather, a constitutional revision that needs a two-thirds approval of the Legislature before it can be put before voters. Legal proceedings are currently underway in an attempt to overturn it.

But not if Starr has anything to do with it. Not only does he want to see Proposition 8 upheld, but he also wants the 18,000 marriages between same-sex couples that occurred prior to November nullified. In other words, he wants to force divorce onto 18,000 people. More if you include the children some of these couples have (for more on that, check out The Courage Campaign’s “Please Don’t Divorce Us” slideshow online).

Starr as the front-man to the anti-same-sex marriage band is hardly a sock. According to Mother Jones, “Two years ago, Starr, now dean of the Pepperdine Law School, represented a bunch of anti-gay marriage groups, including the Mormon Church, in amicus briefs in some of California’s gay marriage litigation. He’s been involved in the issue for a while, now.”

As LL Cool J would say, “Don’t call it a comeback. I’ve been here for years, rockin’ my peers and puttin’ suckas in fear.”

Starr claims that the case has to do with more than just homosexuality, but that’s hard to believe considering he’s accused gay folks of “seizing and hijacking the marriage relationship in order to achieve apartheid-type values.”

Calling Starr “the Grinch who stole marriage,” Rachel Allen of California’s National Organization for Women says, “The only thing I can think of that’s more cruel than denying same-sex couples and their families the right to marry, is stripping the right of families who already are married.”

Something tells me that Starr isn’t going to be moved by the 46,000 signatures delivered last week to his office by www.endthelies.org, a project of the Human Rights Campaign. The signatures were from people asking him not to divorce the 18,000 married same-sex couples in California.

The text that signers put their names to reads: “Your attempt to nullify the marriages of 18,000 loving couples in California is misguided and malicious. The rights of a minority should never be stripped by a simple majority vote, and the idea that divorcing parents could help the welfare of children is disgusting. History will condemn your actions.”

Something tells me Starr isn’t much interested in what history has to say about him. I mean, have your read the Starr report on the adventures of Bill Clinton’s penis?