Two Videos about the Prop 8 Trial

So this post will be short, but it includes a couple of videos that you should all watch if you don't like to read all the stuff I've posted on Prop 8 in the past.

The first one is the entire history of Prop 8 in less than 5 minutes from Matt Baume. I'd give you a link to his site, but unfortunately I don't have one.



The second one is from Rob Tisinai and explains why you should fight against marriage equality.



Both videos are pretty great.

-Andy

Post Trial Press Conference

Just ran across this press conference after the Prop 8 trial wrapped witness testimony. Thought it might be interesting to some of you, so here it is.



-Andy

Boies and Olson on PBS

David Boies and Ted Olson, the lawyers that teamed up to challenge Prop 8 in court, were in Bill Moyers' PBS program The Nation. It's a 40+ minute interview and was very powerful.

I hope you can watch the embedded video here, but just in case that's not working for you, you can head over to PBS.org to have a look.

-Andy

Hypocrites in Charge of Prop 8 Trial

Remember when we were discussing how the Prop 8 team is claiming they are removing witnesses because those witnesses are scared of the gays?

I think maybe they are forgetting when they were turning to extortion to try to get No on 8 supporters to switch teams. Enjoy!



-Andy

Prop 8 Lawsuit Starts Monday

Since the lawsuit to overturn prop 8 will kick off on Monday, I wanted to post a couple of links of interest.

The Conservative Case for Gay Marraige

This is a Newsweek article written by Ted Olson, one of the lawyers hired to overturn Prop 8 in federal court. It lays out a high level view of the It's a good read.

A longer read comes from the New Yorker. This one also profiles Olson, but goes into more back story about the case, more of the concerns and arguments about the timing of the case. I'd recommend both articles.

A Risky Proposal

-Andy

Marriage Equality

A new article has been published in the Wall Street Journal by David Boies.

He has joined Ted Olson in a quest to overturn California's Proposition 8 based on US Constitutional law, stating in short that the laws banning same sex marriage deny gays equal protection and due process.

What's interesting about these two attorneys is that one of them was the lead attorney for Bush and one was the lead attorney for Gore during the recount mess that happened before Bush's first term as President.

It's an interesting case, and I'll follow it here.

-Andy