{"id":227707,"date":"2010-01-25T17:44:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T22:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=63530"},"modified":"2010-01-25T17:44:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T22:44:55","slug":"prop-8-perry-v-schwarzenegger-%e2%80%93-day-ten-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/227707","title":{"rendered":"Prop 8: Perry v. Schwarzenegger \u2013 Day Ten (Part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-61499\" title=\"prop.large\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/01\/prop.large_.jpeg\" alt=\"prop.large\" width=\"200\" height=\"161\" \/>[<em>Ed. Note: FDL has complete team coverage of Perry v. Schwarzenegger&#8211;including more legal analysis, court documents,  videos, and liveblogging direct from the federal court in San Francisco. You can find it all on <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/prop8trial\/\" ><em>our dedicated Prop 8 page<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seminal.firedoglake.com\/diary\/26386\">Part Two of the liveblog here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seminal.firedoglake.com\/diary\/26365\">Part One of the liveblog here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We continue after lunch (1:10pm pacific) with the direct examination of Defendant-Intervenors\u2019 Expert Witness Dr Kenneth Miller by D-I Counsel David Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>Will advise when we resume.<\/p>\n<p>THompson: California Council of Churches supports LGBT rights?<\/p>\n<p>Miller: yes, all these listed churches do.<\/p>\n<p>Walker: Go back to that for a minute, do all those listed churches perform same sex marriages?<\/p>\n<p>Miller: No, I don\u2019t know if they do, wait I\u2019m sure not all of them do, sometimes the local churches are different form that naitonal church.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson: wrt Religiosity, is CA religious?<\/p>\n<p>M: CA is one of the least ten religious states, when it comes to church-going and adherence to a faith.<\/p>\n<p>T: wrt professional associations?<\/p>\n<p>M: Many of these are favorable to LGBT rights.<\/p>\n<p>T: What about university professors? How can they be allies?<\/p>\n<p>M: They testify, they write op-ed pieces, they move in and out of government service.<\/p>\n<p>T: Legal organizaitons? How can they be political allies?<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>T: Another determinant: persuasion, how does this play as a determinant of power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seminal.firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=63530&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_63530\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Ed. Note: FDL has complete team coverage of Perry v. Schwarzenegger&#8211;including more legal analysis, court documents, videos, and liveblogging direct from the federal court in San Francisco. You can find it all on our dedicated Prop 8 page.] Part Two of the liveblog here Part One of the liveblog here We continue after lunch (1:10pm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}