The former teacher also owns the website protectmarriage.com, detailed by conservativebabylon.com, which is a front used to collect donations for the "proposition 8 defense fund." Proposition 8 was a law that amended the California constitution to specifically say that marriage is only between a man and a woman. The law was passed by a margin of over 700,000 votes, but it was subsequently deemed unconstitutional by several rulings from the California Supreme Court and Appeals courts.

Caleb Hesse's next scheduled courtroom appearance is Monday August 27, 2012.