Will we apologize to Gay, Inc. if the Prop. 8 case is lost?
So now we wait in the case of Perry v. Schwarzenegger. All bets on either side of the case are that Judge Vaughan Walker will eventually find that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional, which will send the case toward its eventual appeal to the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS).
Prop. 8 supporters are so sure they will lose that they have been communicating via increasingly unhinged
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letters and blog posts accusing Prop. 8 opponents of all manner of underhandedness, even when the circumstances of the alleged wrongdoing never came to pass. "The price of participating in a trial should not be the willingness to tolerate even a minimum of reasonable threats to one's livelihood or personal safety. The Supreme Court stepped in to prevent the broadcast of these hearings. But it was too late. Expert witnesses had already dropped out. ...The public record has been impoverished and the information available to reviewing courts permanently reduced all because some witnesses feared retaliation as a result of the publicity," screamed a letter to Judge Vaughn from intellectually impoverished Maggie Gallagher of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM).
Gallagher no doubt watched her side’s "expert" witnesses go down in fiery rhetorical and evidentiary flames at every turn of the short trial. She seems to have realized this loser of a case - at least at the trial level - requires nothing less than full frontal assault of obfuscation if she and NOM are to save any face at all after their side's witnesses either proved they either knew little that was factual about the issues at hand, or were forced to contradict themselves repeatedly when cornered into inescapable boxes with their own words.