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We continue after lunch (1:10pm pacific) with the direct examination of Defendant-Intervenors’ Expert Witness Dr Kenneth Miller by D-I Counsel David Thompson.
Will advise when we resume.
THompson: California Council of Churches supports LGBT rights?
Miller: yes, all these listed churches do.
Walker: Go back to that for a minute, do all those listed churches perform same sex marriages?
Miller: No, I don’t know if they do, wait I’m sure not all of them do, sometimes the local churches are different form that naitonal church.
Thompson: wrt Religiosity, is CA religious?
M: CA is one of the least ten religious states, when it comes to church-going and adherence to a faith.
T: wrt professional associations?
M: Many of these are favorable to LGBT rights.
T: What about university professors? How can they be allies?
M: They testify, they write op-ed pieces, they move in and out of government service.
T: Legal organizaitons? How can they be political allies?
M: Lawyers in general are very active in the politcal process. They run for office, serve in appointed positions, serve as gatekeepers as judges all of whom have been lawyers at one time. They shape public policy.
T: Another determinant: persuasion, how does this play as a determinant of power.
