The blog LGBT POV posted an excellent piece on January 8th concerning some behind the scenes actions in the Federal Prop 8 case, which begins on Monday, January 11th. The most interesting quote is from Brian Brown, Executive Director of the National Organization for Marriage, who states in a recent fundraising letter…
"We do not expect to win at the trial level, but with God’s help, at least five members of the current Supreme Court will have the courage to defend our Constitution from this grave attack."
Blog Excerpt:
In his latest fundraising letter sent out Friday, Brian Brown, Executive Director of the National Organization for Marriage, crows about the defeat of the marriage equality bill in the New Jersey Senate Thursday, talks about how Stand for Marriage D.C. has filed a referendum seeking to “overturn gay marriage as the peple [sic] in California did in 2008, and thye [sic] people of Maine did in 2009.”
But the “third big piece of news this week,” he writes, is the “federal trial over the constitutionality of Prop 8 begins.” Brown complains that Judge Vaughn Walker, “in another display of his eagerness to cater to the pro-gay-marriage side,” announced that he will “televise this trial” – discounting the objections of lawyers for Protect Marriage who are worried that their witnesses will face “threats and harassment.”
Well, the trial will not exactly be televised – it will be recorded for uploading on YouTube, which requires someone to have and know how to use the Internet to find and watch the considerably small and delayed trial.
The posting also delivers still more astounding (did I say astounding? I meant asinine) statements from Maggie Gallegher, of the National Organization for Marriage, such as the fact that the innocent victims in all this have been the supporters of Prop 8. These poor people, just because they’re choosing to restrict the rights of a minority group of Americans for no reason whatsoever, have been subjected to "harassment, intimidation, vandalism, racial scapegoating, blacklisting, loss of employment, economic hardships, angry protests, violence, at least one death threat, and gross expressions of anti-religious bigotry.”
LGBT Americans, of course, have no experience with any of that…
Read the entire posting here…LGBT POV
