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George Takei responds to “traditional marriage” fans

Matt Stopera of Buzzfeed asked protesters who gathered during March Prop 8/DOMA hearings outside the Supreme Court to express their opinions on a pad of paper. The ever-fun and funny George Takei took the time to respond to some of these folks who proudly stand up for denying marriage rights to LGBT Americans.

From the above pic: “I support marraige between man and woman because as my God says, I believe.  As a true follower I beleive of him.  And I love him.”

George’s response below:

From above pic: “Because against God law, is a deadly sin.”

George’s response below:

Check out more from George and Buzzfeed here.

(via Good As You)

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MEET THE PRESS: David Boies on SCOTUS and Prop 8

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Prop. 8 attorney David Boies joined David Gregory on Meet the Press today to talk about this week’s case at the Supreme Court.

Boies says that he believes his side will prevail because his team has already succeeded on the three issues they set out to prove.

In addition, Boies had this to say:

“We believe that even if you simply apply the rational basis test, there is no rational basis to justify this ban. And that’s because…there is no evidence. None. That allowing gay and lesbians to marry harms the institution of marriage or harms anyone else… The evidence is that having a loving couple that are married is great for children. Everybody agreed with that. But the evidence is that’s true whether it’s a gay couple or a straight couple. And it’s true whether it’s an adopted couple or a biological couple.”

(via NBC News)

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To the US Supreme Court – “History is Watching”

From GetEqual.

Text of the video:

Since the birth of our nation, people held down by prejudice and discrimination have always moved slowly but inevitably toward justice and equality.

And throughout our history, the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States have been called upon to issue the critical rulings ensuring that our founding principles of justice and equality are delivered to those long denied them.

After centuries of injustice, countless generations lived in closets, through the watershed of Stonewall, the rise of Pride, the fight AGAINST AIDS, the fall of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, and the demand that our relationships and our lives be shown the respect they deserve, the great weight of history has brought us to the doorstep of the Supreme Court. An unstoppable TIDAL wave is about to sweep over OUR NATION as our history and THOSE OF OUR JUSTICES WILL come together, forever united.

Major civil rights decisions are the most famous in the history of the court. The justices that MAKE the inevitable ruling of national marriage equality will secure their legacy’s forever. We have brought to your doorstep and laid at your feet your opportunity to craft one of the defining decisions of civil rights law for our republic, and with it, to define your legacy in history. If you let this opportunity slip away by ruling anything less than full national marriage equality, you will only be giving some future court the recognition for having done it. You have in your hands the power to bring to fruition decades of a people’s struggle for equality, and with it the opportunity of a jurist’s career to forever mark your name in our evolving understanding of the Constitution AND OUR COUNTRY’S PROMISE OF LIFE, LIBERTY & PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS FOR ALL.

Our equality will come. The only question is who will deliver it.

Equality is waiting…
History is watching…

For more info go to www.lighttojustice.org

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SCOTUS to release audio recordings of Prop 8 & DOMA oral arguments

The New York Times is reporting that the US Supreme Court will release same-day recordings of oral arguments in the Prop 8 and DOMA cases:

The last time the court allowed same-day access to such recordings was a year ago, when it heard three days of arguments over the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care law. The court’s general practice in recent years has been to release audio recordings of arguments at the end of the week.

The court said the recording of the hourlong argument in the first case, Hollingsworth v. Perry, No. 12-144, would be available on its Web site by 1 p.m. on March 26. That case is a challenge to Proposition 8, California’s ban on same-sex marriage.

The recording of the argument in United States v. Windsor, No. 12-307, will last almost two hours and will be available by 2 p.m. on March 27, the court said. The case is a challenge of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

(via NYTimes)