It was fun to read the live blogging. And it's a travesty video recording wasn't allowed, if not for historical purposes.
It was a total smackdown. The H8rs are screwed. Forced to defend the indefensible, they stammered their case as "I don't know." and "I don't have to prove anything." And their poster woman to "protest marriage'? She had to be told by the bailiff to take her feet down. And put shoes on in the courtroom. These are the people trampling my civil rights? Actually barefooted rednecks?
AOL News: Defense says no defense needed.
Firedog Lake: Ted Olson brings us home
Kate Kendall's video response after leaving the courtroom. (National Center for Lesbian Rights)
Pam's House Blend: Prop 8 trial: defendant witness David Blankenhorn withers under Boies' questioning
The H8r's lawyer Charles Cooper kept saying he did not have to defend marriage as always and forever one man-one woman (never mind that it was, in the scheme of thing,s until only recently one-man-and-many-women), nor did he have to provide any evidence to support his case (to which the judge cocked an eyebrow-- really? you don't think evidence is necessary in a trial?). His repeated argument: "I don't have to provide any evidence...You only need to go back to your chambers and pull down any dictionary or book that defines marriage. You won't find it had anything to do with homosexuality."
I kept thinking, "Really? Any book?"
I swear, the conservatives only study revisionist history. And damn all that liberal book learnin'.
"I don't have to provide any evidence...You only need to go back to your chambers and pull down any dictionary or book that defines marriage. You won't find it had anything to do with homosexuality." It isn't defined by any sexuality actually. Marriage is not so much about sex. Or so I've heard...
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