Last Friday Prop 8 trial’s Judge Vaughn Walker issued an order denying their request to strike from the evidence certain emails that demonstrate how heavily involved Catholic and Mormon church officials were in the Yes on 8 campaign, according to Keen News Service.
This also comes as a blow to church officials from both the Mormon and Catholic church camps as these religious leaders have sought to keep communication and involvement with Prop 8 backers private.
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Brian Brown, President of National Organization For Marriage
In a press release sent out across the nation today, the National Organization For Marriage (NOM) hailed the wins of Prop 8 trial’s Andrew Pugno (AD 5), Chris Lancaster (AD 59) for State Assembly, and Senate candidate Joel Anderson (SD 36) in Tuesday’s California primary races. The org claims that these three wins prove “Marriage is winning” in the golden state.
“There should be no question that candidates who support marriage as the union of one man and one woman will be elected to office in California,” said Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage – California PAC. “The NOM California PAC made support for marriage an issue in five critical races in California, and we won three of those contests. Marriage is a winning issue in this state.”
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Today Judge Vaughn Walker delivered the last of the questions to be addressed by attorneys on both sides of the Prop 8 trial debate.
According to the KTVU Website, the questions posed by Walker cover all sides and angles of the case on topics ranging from voter intent and the role of churches in the 2008 election campaign to the definition and purpose of marriage.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs are asked to answer, “What is the import of evidence showing that marriage has been historically limited to a man and a woman?”
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Okay, so this morning we get our second Facebook message from All Or Not All’s Josh Einsohn. The first one if you recall we featured 2 weeks ago in our post Courage Campaign Gets Slammed On $100K Outreach For Yet Another Prop 8 Trial Reinactment.
In that post Einsohn, who heads up LA-based equality outreach and education group All Or Not All, straight up accused the Courage Campaign of unnecessarily reaching out to the LGBT public $100k for an unnecessary media campaign; a re-enactment of the Prop 8 trail. As Einsohn stated in his Facebook message broadcast this had already been done by John Ainsworth and John Ireland with YouTube videos posted on their site Marriagetrial.com for any and all to see. Why did Courage Campaign feel the need to do this over with tin cup in hand for donations from the public to boot?
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Old flyer from back in the day when Courage was really rakin’ in the dough
Check out this Facebook message we just received:
For those of you who just received an email from the Courage Campaign asking you to raise $100K to produce a Prop. 8 Trial recreation, please be aware that there is already a fully-completed re-enactment of the Prop. 8 Trial available at www.marriagetrial.com. The producers, John Ainsworth and John Ireland, used the transcripts from the trial and, using their own money, time and donated services from friends, they put together a fantastic account of this historical trial.
The cast is stellar and includes Oscar nominee Tess Harper (No Country for Old Men, Tender Mercies), Pamela Reed (Jericho, Parks & Recreation, The Right Stuff), Gedde Watanabe (E.R., “Long Duk Dong” from Sixteen Candles) and Gregory Itizin (Emmy nominee for his portrayal of President Logan on 24) along with Peter Jason, Jack Laufer, Adrienne Barbeau, Tuc Watkins, Arye Gross and many other well-known, well-respected actors who donated their time to come and participate in a project they deeply believed was crucial for the community, the state and the country.
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Utah State Senator Chris Buttars says of gay people: “I believe they’re the greatest threat to America going down that I know of.” Photo Credit: David Daniels (Red Flag Releasing)
The trailer is finally out for 8: The Mormon Proposition. And it’s good. So weird that we actually recognize and know some of the people who are in it. Guess that makes sense with us living in LA and all. We love the sound effects in terms of the dark foreboding music that plays while Mormon church leaders are being interviewed. It goes well with that sense of matter-of-fact evilness as these people explain devoid of any emotion how homosexuality is the greatest threat to America. Got some good scenes of the gay reaction to the defeat of No On 8. Heartbreaking. The film will be hardly short on emotional juice if the trailer is any indication.
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