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Prop. 8 trial Day 5: Live coverage from the courtroom

By Alliance Alert

Contra Costa Times: "Judge Vaughn Walker, over the objections of Prop 8 lawyers, has decided to allow the testimony of Helen Zia, a San Francisco writer and lesbian who married in 2008 before the marriage ban took hold in the state . . . Prop 8 lawyer Brian Raum tried to argue that her testimony is irrelevant, and that it is inappropriate to have one person 'taken off the street' to testify on a same-sex marriage, saying such evidence should come into the trial through scientific studies of more couples . . . Prop 8 attorney Brian Raum cross-examined Zia, depicting her as an activist who has campaigned against Prop 8 and took part in the earlier state court challenge to California's prior ban on gay marriage, struck down by the California Supreme Court."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 18, 2010 (boomark / email).