{"id":21203,"date":"2010-01-12T17:20:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T22:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=21203"},"modified":"2011-06-03T19:04:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T23:04:46","slug":"impassioned-pleas-dominate-same-sex-marriage-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/impassioned-pleas-dominate-same-sex-marriage-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Impassioned Pleas Dominate Same-Sex Marriage Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is one of those really, really interesting Aries Point kind of weeks. This article is from Truthout<\/strong><\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Marriage has a special meaning,” Zarillo said, according to a live blog of the trial<\/a>. “That’s why we’re here today: to share the joy and happiness my parents felt, my brother felt, my neighbors felt when they married.”<\/p>\n

Both men described how they felt discriminated against by Proposition 8, a ballot measure passed in November 2008 that defines marriage in the California Constitution as a union between a man and a woman. Civil rights groups and gay rights activists immediately challenged the measure, calling it unconstitutional and discriminatory. Defenders argue that Proposition 8 is the will of California’s voters, who passed the measure with a 52 percent majority. In May 2009, the American Foundation for Equal Rights, on behalf of two same-sex couples, filed suit against the state of California regarding the constitutionality of Proposition 8.<\/p>\n

The suit itself has attracted increased attention because of the unconventional nature of the lawyers for the plaintiffs. Boies, a prominent Washington lawyer, who represented Al Gore in the disputed 2000 election against George W. Bush, teamed up with Theodore B. Olson, a stalwart of the conservative legal movement, who argued for Bush against Boies in the Supreme Court case that installed Bush as president – and won. Against this backdrop, Olson delivered the opening statement, and Boies followed with questioning of all four of the plaintiffs who brought the suit, focusing on their relationships, past instances of discrimination and the difference between domestic partnerships (legal under California law) and marriage.<\/p>\n

“This isn’t a country about ‘us and them,'” Katami said. “My state is supposed to protect me, not discriminate against me.”<\/p>\n

In cross-examination, the lead counsel for the defense, Charles J. Cooper, focused on the rights of heterosexual parents to protect their children from discussions of homosexual marriage. In his opening statement, Cooper also argued that same-sex couples could not satisfy a basic requirement of marriage.<\/p>\n

“[The] basis of marriage is procreation,” he said. “It is a pro-child societal institution.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is one of those really, really interesting Aries Point kind of weeks. This article is from Truthout. “Marriage has a special meaning,” Zarillo said, according to a live blog of the trial. “That’s why we’re here today: to share the joy and happiness my parents felt, my brother felt, my neighbors felt when they … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}