{"id":237313,"date":"2010-01-27T14:45:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T19:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=63859"},"modified":"2010-01-27T14:45:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T19:45:13","slug":"prop-8-perry-v-schwarzenegger-%e2%80%93-day-twelve-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/237313","title":{"rendered":"Prop 8: Perry v. Schwarzenegger \u2013 Day Twelve (Part 2)"},"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>We will resume at five minutes (past?) the hour with David Boies\u2019 cross examination of David Blankenhorn.<\/p>\n<p>Boies: Did you agree with this document that marriage has six importnat dimensions?<\/p>\n<p>A: Yes I did<\/p>\n<p>Q: The first is that it is a legal contract<br \/>\nA: Yes<br \/>\nQ: whether hetero or samesex, it would be a legal contract<br \/>\nA: Yes<br \/>\nQ: The second dimension is financial. Same for hetero ansd ss&#8221;?<br \/>\nA: yes<br \/>\nQ: marriage is a sacred promise?<br \/>\nA: YEs<br \/>\nQ: Sexual union?<br \/>\nA: Yes<br \/>\nQ: Personal bond?<br \/>\nA: Yes<br \/>\nQ: Family-making bond? Does this sixth dimension mean only two people or a way of establishing children?<br \/>\nA: I\u2019m afraid \u2014 can you repeat?<\/p>\n<p>Q: let me break it up. This sixth dimension is that it is afmaily making bond. When two marry they make a family, right?<br \/>\nA: Yes<br \/>\nQ: whether same or opposite sex?<br \/>\nA: Yes<br \/>\nQ: Can both ss and opp raise children in a family=making bond?<br \/>\nA: Yes sir, the important word is the word raise.<\/p>\n<p>Q: In that connection, let me ask you to turn to Tab 9. PX2898, articel in Social Sceince Quarterly: Same Sex Marriage &amp; Negative Eternalities.<br \/>\nA: I am looking at this for the first time.<br \/>\nQ: Do you know either of these authors?<br \/>\nA: Not familiar<br \/>\nQ: You don\u2019t know any of theri worwk?<br \/>\nA: Can\u2019t say I do.<br \/>\nQ: Your honor take judicial notice?<br \/>\nOBJECTION (or question)<\/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=63859&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_63859\" 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.] We will resume at five minutes (past?) the hour with David Boies\u2019 cross examination of David Blankenhorn. [&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-237313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237313","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=237313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}