Tag Archives: Perry v Schwarzenengger

“It was shocking how emotional the process was. You prepare as much as you possibly can, but on day 1, I was the most nervous I’ve ever been in my life. I was sick to my stomach and rendered a lump in the chair. But the minute Ted Olson stood up and encapsulated why we were there that day, my …

Here’s an hour-long verbatim re-enactment of excerpts from the first day of Perry vs. Schwarzenegger, courtesy of the folks at MarriageTrial.com.

Courtesy of 33 collaborators who were attending the Sundance Film Festival, here’s a cute Schoolhouse Rock-ish take on the decision not to broadcast the Prop 8 trail. The message is that in world of live-blogging and Twitter, the words of bigots will be known. The video was made by HitRECord, which was founded by actor Joseph Gordon Levitt. (Tipped by …

Read and enjoy. We are not hopeful that Judge Walker is going to do justice to the 7 million Californians who voted to protect marriage as the union of husband and wife–especially not after his rush to break all the rules to televise this trial resulted in the lost of key expert witnesses’ testimony. Respect for voting rights doesn’t appear …

Maggie Gallagher has posted a letter she sent to Perry vs. Schwarzenegger Judge Vaughn Walker, in which she complains that Protect Marriage’s case was ruined, simply ruined, because of all those witnesses that fled the potential violent fury of raging homofascists. The price of participating in a trial should not be the willingness to tolerate even a minimum of reasonable …

The haters’ final witness in Perry vs. Schwarzenegger yesterday was David Blankenhorn, the founder and president of the Institute for American Values, which bills itself as “devoted to contributing intellectually to the renewal of marriage and family life and the sources of competence, character, and citizenship in the United States.” By most accounts, Blankenhorn was a disastrous “expert witness” for …

The haters can’t catch a break at the Prop 8 trial. Four of their six witnesses bailed, they had tons of their internal hate documents entered into the record, and now Professor Kenneth Miller, their star witness, just admitted on the stand that he is sure gays suffer frequent workplace discrimination. Hey, wasn’t it yesterday that the same guy said …

According to the Courage Campaign, internal documents and emails revealed this morning at Perry vs. Schwarzenegger reveal how Protect Marriage attempted to link same-sex marriage rights to pedophilia, incest, bestiality, and polygamy. From the Courage Campaign’s Rick Jacobs, via press release: “Ron Prentice, Andrew Pugno and their Prop 8 team — with the highly capable and apparently deeply cynical leadership …

UPDATE: The good guys have rested their case. Here come the haters. Via Karen Ocamb at LGBT POV: There is a flurry of activity Monday morning with motions by the defense to seal or exclude documents and videotapes the Olson/Boies team plans to introduce – including testimony by Yes on 8 campaign manager Frank Schubert. If Olson/Boies succeeds in getting …

Perry vs. Schwarzenegger lawyer David Boies tells the Wall Street Journal today that his side will rest their case tomorrow. “We’re pleased with the way it has gone,” said David Boies, an attorney for the gay couples who want to wed. He said he set out to prove that marriage was an important right, that gays were harmed by being …

David Boies tore into Hak-Shing William Tam on the stand at Perry vs. Schwarzenegger as Tam repeated his nonsensical claims about gays and pedophilia. Attorney David Boies spent time walking Tam through a Web site for a Chinese-American evangelical Christian group that featured a headline reading “Studies Show That Homosexuality Is Linked to Pedophilia.” Tam serves as secretary of the …

“What do Olson and Boies think they are doing? Watching accounts of this trial unfold this week I had a big “aha” moment. It’s now clear: Ted and David think they are conducting the Scopes trial! When this trial began I told you: gay marriage activists were putting 7 million Californians on trial. But this week it got worse: They …

Hak-Shing William Tam, who infamously said that the ultimate goal of gay activists was to legalize sex with children, will be called today by Olson & Boies as a hostile witness, despite Tam’s attempt to back out of testifying for the bigots’ side. Last week, the lawyers used footage from Tam’s taped deposition to buttress their contention that Proposition 8 …

Using actors, the folks at MarriageTrial.com will be issuing reenactments of Perry vs. Schwarzenegger. Here’s the trailer.

Calling it an “explosive afternoon” the Courage Campaign’s Prop 8 live blog reported late today that according to documents revealed to the court, the Mormon Church labored hard behind the scenes to cover-up their involvement in the campaign. That’s not surprise to any of us, but it’s the first time physical evidence has been produced to substantiate this. For example, …

The American Foundation For Equal Rights sends us these video depositions made by two Perry vs. Schwarzenegger defendants who later dropped off the witness list rather than face the “violent wrath of vicious homofascists” were the trial to be televised. The Olson/Boies legal team today introduced into evidence videos of the depositions of Paul Nathanson, Ph.D. and Katherine Young, Ph.D., …

Citing witnesses at Perry vs. Schwarzenegger who are quoting President Obama’s words about same-sex marriage, activist and former Clinton White House adviser David Mixner says it’s about time that our fierce advocate speak up on our behalf. But this is not the first time Obama’s words have been used against us. They were used by the evil forces pushing Proposition …

San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders, who in 2007 publicly reversed his position on marriage equality in a tearful press conference, is scheduled to testify today at Perry vs. Schwarzenegger. Today’s witness list, per Americans For Equal Rights: Jerry Sanders, the current Republican Mayor and former Police Chief of the City of San Diego who is the father of a lesbian …

“The obvious truth, repeated over and over again in the legal history of marriage in the U.S., is that the government thought marriage mattered because marital unions produce and protect children. They do this in two ways: First, by creating faithful, exclusive, enduring sexual unions that create the best context fo conceiving children. And second, by preventing (if the man …