Prop 8 Trial: Attacking stereotypes
(San Francisco) Seeking to strengthen arguments against a ban on same-sex marriage, trial attorneys have introduced statements from a supporter of California’s ban warning voters in 2008 that gay rights activists would try to legalize sex with children if same-sex couples had the right to wed.
The material was presented Wednesday …
Gay marriage trial revives camera controversy
(San Francisco) While the issue of same-sex marriage is widely expected to work its way to the U.S. Supreme Court over the next few years, another thorny legal question raised in the case has already landed before the high court: cameras in federal courtrooms.
The U.S. Supreme Court could rule as …
Prop 8 trial: Historian says marriage about more than procreation
(San Francisco) A Harvard professor testifying in a case challenging California’s gay marriage ban said Tuesday that procreation is historically not the only function of marriage.
In her second day of testimony, Nancy Cott, a U.S. history professor and the author of a book on marriage as a public institution, disputed …
Day One: Prop 8 trial saw some humor, lots of heart
(San Francisco) The trial to challenge Proposition 8 in federal court got underway Monday in San Francisco, but the opening acts were upstaged in Washington, D.C. just minutes before the proceeding began.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy asked the full court to weigh in on the fairness of allowing videotaped …
Judge has questions in gay marriage trial in CA
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(San Francisco) The first federal trial to determine if the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from outlawing same-sex marriage got under way Monday, with a judge peppering both sides with questions during their opening statements.
Chief U.S. District …
Protest outside federal gay marriage trial in SF
(San Francisco) About 100 people are demonstrating outside the federal courthouse in San Francisco as the trial for California’s gay marriage ban begins.
Most of the demonstrators are gay marriage supporters, who took turns Monday addressing the crowd with a microphone. They support the overturning of Proposition 8, a voter-approved law …
Groundbreaking gay marriage trial starts in Calif
(San Francisco) The first federal trial to determine if the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from outlawing same-sex marriage gets under way Monday, and the two gay couples on whose behalf the case was brought will be among the first witnesses.
The proceedings, which are expected to last two to three weeks, …
Supreme Court asked to bar taping of gay marriage trial
(Washington) Gay marriage opponents are asking the Supreme Court to block the broadcast of the upcoming trial on California’s same-sex marriage ban.
At issue in the federal trial beginning Monday in San Francisco is whether the Proposition 8 gay marriage ban approved by California voters in November 2008 is legal.
The presiding …
High-stakes gay marriage trial to begin in Calif.
(San Francisco) The national debate over same-sex marriage will take center stage in a California courtroom next week at a closely watched federal trial that could ultimately become the landmark case that determines whether gay Americans have a right to marry.
The case will decide a challenge to California’s gay marriage …
Gay House members say gay-friendly bills are near
(San Francisco) Two of Congress’s three openly gay members said Saturday that the U.S. House is poised to pass bills to provide health coverage for the same-sex partners of gay federal workers and to protect all gay and transgender employees from job discrimination.
Speaking to an international conference of gay politicians …
