# The Gay Marriage Prop 8 trial

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gay-marriage-prop-8-trial/524672>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 12, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gay-marriage-prop-8-trial/524672 "2010-01-12T16:23:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gay-marriage-prop-8-trial/524672/41 "2010-01-27T20:13:41Z")

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> [@ArchiveGuy](#):
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> I’m surprised there hasn’t been more discussion on this, but [this site](http://prop8trialtracker.com/) has been very helpful in tracking the day-to-day progress and testimonies. The defense in particular seems to be increasingly grasping at straws when it comes to making their case in some kind of coherent, consistent fashion.

I’m not sure that site is evaluating the progress in what one might call a neutral manner.

In any event, I have no doubt the trial court is going to find in favor of same-sex marriage, and I have only slightly less doubt that the circuit will affirm.

And then it will go to the Supreme Court, which will kill it, and enshrine a precedent against it. And people will wail about the “activist” Court.

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**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gay-marriage-prop-8-trial/524672/42 "2010-01-27T20:16:17Z")

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> [@Bricker](#):
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> I’m not sure that site is evaluating the progress in what one might call a neutral manner.

Which is why cameras sure would have been nice.

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**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-gay-marriage-prop-8-trial/524672/43 "2010-01-27T22:05:43Z")

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> [@Bricker](#):
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> I’m not sure that site is evaluating the progress in what one might call a neutral manner…

I totally agree, and their transcriptions sometimes don’t catch everything perfectly (which they freely admit). But they also linked to a page that has the actual court transcripts [here](http://www.equalrightsfoundation.org/our-work/hearing-transcripts/) available as PDF downloads.

This trial has been like watching the Harlem Globetrotters play the Washington Generals.

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