Prop 8 Trial Re-enactment, Day 1 Chapter 1

Day 1 Chapter 1 of the Proposition 8 Trial Re-enactment presented by MarriageTrial.com. Opening statements begin at min. 15:02. Produced by John Ainsworth & John Ireland.

Edited by Michael Legge.

THE JUDGE
Vaughn Walker, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court portrayed by Ted Heyck
THE PLAINTIFFS
Paul Katami portrayed by Woody Schultz
Jeffrey Zarrillo portrayed by Bryan Cuprill
Kristin Perry portrayed by Kitty Swink
Sandy Stier portrayed by Tess Harper
THE PLAINTIFF ATTORNEYS
David Boies portrayed by Jack Laufer
Theodore Olson portrayed by Clyde FT Small
Theodore Boutrous portrayed by Peter Cassone
Christopher Dusseault portrayed by Jon Keel
Matthew McGill portrayed by Mark Doerr
Ethan Dettmer portrayed by Shawn Ryan
THE PLAINTIFF-INTERVENOR ATTORNEYS
Dennis Herrera, S.F. City Attorney portrayed by Matt Pittenger
Therese Stewart, S.F. Deputy City Attorney portrayed by Sarah Gaboury
Christine Van Aken, S.F. City Attorney Portayed by Kate McNeil
Danny Chou, S.F. City Attorney portrayed by Peter James Smith
S.F. City Attorney Ronald Flynn portrayed by Todd Waring
THE DEFENDANTS
Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Governor Does not appear at trial.
Edmund G. Brown, California Attorney General Does not appear at trial.
Linette Scott, Deputy Director of Health & Strategic Planning for the California Department of Public Health Does not appear at trial.
Patrick OConnell, Clerk-Recorder County of Alameda Does not appear at trial.
Dean Logan, Clerk-Recorder County of Los Angeles Does not appear at trial.
THE DEFENDANT ATTORNEY
Tamar Pachter, Deputy Attorney General portrayed by Susyn Duris
THE DEFENDANT-INTERVENOR ATTORNEYS
Charles Cooper portrayed by Julian Simmons
David Thompson portrayed by Scott Kradolfer
Nicole Moss portrayed by Judith Hoag
Howard Nielson portrayed by Jon Acosta
Brian Raum, Alliance Defense Fund portrayed by John Ainsworth
Andrew Pugno, Protect Marriage.com portrayed by Brian Poth
James Campbell, Alliance Defense Fund portrayed by Victor Warren
Terry Thompson, Attorney for William Tam portrayed by Tuc Watkins
Peter Patterson, Alliance Defense Fund portrayed by Len Cordova
Vincent McCarthy, American Center for Law & Justice portrayed by William Charlton
THE WITNESSES
Dr. Nancy Cott, Professor of History, Harvard University portrayed by Nicole Hoelle
Dr. George Chauncey, Professor of History, Yale University portrayed by John Ireland
Dr. Letitia Peplau Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles portrayed by Adrienne Barbeau
Edmund Egan, Chief Economist, City of San Francisco portrayed by Jim Abele
Dr. Ilan Meyer, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University, portrayed by Arye Gross
Helen Zia, Journalist based in San Francisco, portrayed by Sachie Alessio Heath
Dr. Michael Lamb, Professor of Economics, Cambridge University, portrayed by Basil Smith
Jerry Sanders, Mayor, City of San Diego portrayed by Peter Jason
Dr. M.V. Lee Badgett, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, portrayed by Pamela Reed
Ryan Kendall, Conversion Therapy Survivor portrayed by Jarod Einsohn
Dr. Gary Segura, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University, portrayed by Sean Stanek
Hak-Shing William Tam, Businessman based in San Francisco, portrayed by Gedde Watanabe
Dr. Gregory M. Herek, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Davis, portrayed by Scott Lowell
Dr. Kenneth Miller, Assoc. Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College, portrayed by Kasey Mahaffy
David Blankenhorn, Founder & President, Institute for American Values, portrayed by Gregory Itzin

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[TheSPARTANJ13]

@TheBlitzProof Die out? Prove it.

[TheBlitzProof]

@TheSPARTANJ13

In fact I think that God has planted in us love to be a motivation for us in this world In order to reconstruct the earth, God said: ((Lord said to the angels, I will create a successor in the earth))

Homosexuality is the epidemic that affects society like the cancer it's dying slowly but it eventually it will die, For this, we find that mentally troubled homosexuals suffer from psychological problems

and again god give us mind to suppress our desires

[TheSPARTANJ13]

@TheBlitzProof First off, be I a homosexual or not (both, actually), I am nobody's "dear".

Secondly. Provide evidence, please, that each and every homosexual on this planet, be they flamboyant, closet, or bisexual, is a diseased maniac who oversexualizes anything and everything.

Lastly, I ask you: If humans are so different from animals, why does sex motivate us to fly into a primal rage and kill another fellow human? Why does primal rage even exist for us?

[TheSPARTANJ13]

@TheBlitzProof Actually, if I meet God, the only way it can end is with me waking up. Because the world can only be a dream if God exists in it.

[TheBlitzProof]

@TheBlitzProof

And the last thing I would like to say is an old dictum:

If you're not ashamed Do whatever you want

If you're not ashamed go naked on the street

If you're not ashamed grab your brother and give him a full moth kiss

If you're not ashamed make shit in the middle of the class with the students looking

If you're not ashamed grab a mic and tell your deepiest secret in the middle of the central park

but remebre oneday you won't wake up n you'll meat your god

won't wake up

[TheBlitzProof]

7 people dislike this are straight (in thoughts first)

then in the body

[TheBlitzProof]

@TheSPARTANJ13

First, my dear The person who shows a tendency toward sexual person of the same gender is a person who is mentally ill and the same person can be sexually inclined towards his father or mother or even his sisters!

This is called a disease and I do not accompany my part of the homosexuals because they (may) ...

No, my friend that God distinguished human from animal's mind and make him think of it as making him upright back

Human are not animals (you are not animal)

[TheSPARTANJ13]

@TheBlitzProof Umm... I really don't mean to intrude, but... Okay, if homosexuality is so bad, and is against nature, then why do so many creatures display homosexual behavior? Seriously, so many different species of animals are, *ahem*, "gay". And, though it is easy to forget, humans are animals. Also, I don't see the problem with a lack of pregnancy. Enough people got pregnant for us to have 7 billion people on this Earth; I think we can safely allow two men to have sex...

[TheBlitzProof]

@poetaviolinista

no you didn't understand what i've said...I mean when two homos marry eachother they can't have children right then they'll die and won't leave kids? why is it unnatural I'll tell you

first. when they're having sex-apart from there genere-one of them should be the man role and the other will be the woman

second. Adam and Eve express our nature and they're stright and if you don't believe in them how about to imagin the first man who loved the first woman...

[poetaviolinista]

@TheBlitzProof If all homosexuals would marry each other, the net amount of homosexuals in the world would still be the same. They'd just be happier. The Quran is not the Bible. I have absolutely no knowledge about the contents of the Quran, but I never mentioned it. I didn't make a sweeping "Holy Books" analogy. I only mentioned the Bible, with which I'm familiar. There are many societies against women's rights. That makes it totally OK, right?