Everything about the climax of the legal quest to overturn California’ ban on gay marriage was appropriately cinematic ‚Äî even the month best to imagine two men atop a wedding cake or two women walking down the aisle.
“It may be appropriate that the case is coming to closing argument now,” Chief Judge Vaughn Walker said with a twinkle. “June is, after all, the month for weddings.”
NYT’s Maureen Dowd on Prop 8 Court Case
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Wayne Besen is the Founding Executive Director of Truth Wins Out and author of “Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth” (Haworth, 2003). In 2010, Besen was awarded the “Visionary Award” at the Out Music Awards for organizing the American Prayer Hour, an event which shined a spotlight on the role American evangelicals played in the introduction of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
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….’he (Judge Walker) is also, according to The San Francisco Chronicle, gay himself, which might give Prop 8 proponents ammunition to claim bias if he rules against them.’ TOUGH s**t! Now they know what it feels like.
I was pleased to read this. So often Dowd comes off as mean spirited, but in this she is funny and smart.
MoDo is one of those people the “stopped clock” adage was written for.
How many of the LGBT community read the court transcript on the closing arguments? This is extremely important stuff. The religious right has ALREADY come out with talking points based on their readings. Basically, “it should stay the way it has always been. Human history, from the beginning and evidenced across every nation for all time dictates that we are right.” What are our talking points? I read the entire PDF online but need to go back and MEMORIZE some of it. The greatest legal legends of our day siding with the LGBT, who themselves are straight, present the material in a VERY readable, exciting, straight-forward, uncomplicated manner. To me, that was the most amazing part!
Whatever “Act” or law we contrive in the future to represent freedom and equality, I hope we pay homage to these lawyers. I look forward to the day when our own people have the verbal command of language where we can represent our own with something more than “I want the whole twinky”.