In the Nov. 26, 2012 decision upholding the ban in Sevcik v. Sandoval, Jones wrote at length about the “legitimate” reasons the state had for the ban. If same-sex couples were allowed to marry, he wrote, “it is conceivable that a meaningful percentage of heterosexual persons would cease to value the civil institution as highly as they previously had and hence enter into it less frequently … because they no longer wish to be associated with the civil institution as redefined.”