SF News Everything You Need to Know About Prop 8 in Just a Few Minutes After the Prop-8-ruling-false-alarm blip last week -- smack dab in the middle of Thursday's Mehserle verdict, prompting all sorts of knee-jerk-ishness -- Matt Baume decided to make a quick recap of the last
SF News Prop 8 Closing Arguments Schedule For those of you following the case closely, here is today's closing argument schedule: * 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM -- Plaintiffs * 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM -- City and
SF News Release Confidential Prop 8 Campaign Docs, Rules Judge Walker Get ready to see some dirty laundry aired. Today Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ordered gay marriage advocacy groups to turn over campaign materials from the election fight over Proposition 8,
SF News Prop 8 Trial Judge Is Gay; Should This Matter? On Sunday, Matier and Ross carefully stepped into some potentially controversial territory in pointing out the open secret that federal Judge Vaughn Walker is gay. Walker will be delivering a decision concerning the
SF News Prop 8 Trial Undramatic Reenactment Since cameras were barred from the federal Prop 8 trial, which will decide whether or not banning same-sex marriage in California is disgusting, Marriage Trial has reenacted the entire proceedings. "Working from court
SF News Prop 8 Trial: Gay Not A Choice? Contrary to what many confused homophobes and numerous post-structuralist theory classes might tell you, being gay is not a choice -- or so says UC Davis social psychologist/researcher Gregory Herek. During today's
SF News Gay Marriage Trial: San Diego Mayor Claims His Views On Marriage 'Evolved' Typically viewed as one of the more conservative slabs of land bordering California's coast, San Diego used to have a comparatively bad track-record when it came to tolerance and civil rights. But today,
SF News Gay Marriage Trial Deposition Reveals Disturbing Tactics Dr. William Tam, a defendant-intervener and staunch proponent of Prop 8, wanted to be excused from the federal same-sex marriage trial now in progress. It seems he feared for his and his family's
SF News Supreme Court Says 'No' To Cameras In Prop 8 Trial Because anti-gay Prop 8 sponsors are scared for their well-being -- and only their own -- the Supreme Court decided today to indefinitely ban cameras from the courtroom in the ongoing federal same-sex
SF News Prop 8 Trial, Day Two The scene outside the courthouse this morning seemed quieter compared to yesterday. Blame it on the rain, blame it on day-two fatigue -- no one (pro-marriage or anti-gay), according to SF Weekly, showed
SF News Gay Marriage Trial: It's All About The Children, Says Lawyer For Proposition 8 After opening statements during today's federal same-sex marriage trial were done, the courtroom turned tense when the religious right's preferred argument angle came into play: the children. Charles Cooper, attorney for the Proposition
SF News Photos: Gay Marriage Trial Begins, Protest Outside SF Courthouse Around 100-plus people are protesting outside San Francisco's federal courthouse as the first federal trial for California’s gay marriage ban begins. "Most of the demonstrators are gay marriage supporters, who took turns
SF News Prop 8 Trial Begins Today, Supreme Court Blocks YouTube Broadcast At 9 a.m. today, the first federal trial to see "if the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from outlawing same-sex marriage" starts in San Francisco. The trial is expected to last anywhere
