Religious, other groups join same-sex married couple to seek overturn of Prop. 8

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Source: Bay City News Service

Several coalitions of church groups, psychology organizations and civil rights groups asked a federal judge in San Francisco today to overturn California's ban on same-sex marriage.

The groups' pleas were made in so-called friend-of-the-court briefs filed in support of two same-sex couples who are challenging the ban enacted by state voters in 2008 as Proposition 8.

Today was the deadline set by U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker for filing such briefs, which can be submitted by outside parties in support of either of the two official sides in a lawsuit.

... By early evening today (Wednesday), eight friend-of-the-court briefs, some joined by a dozen or more organizations, were filed in support of the plaintiffs in the case.

One brief was filed on the other side in support of the sponsors of Proposition 8.

That brief was submitted by Dublin attorney Michael McDermott, who charged that the attack on Proposition 8 is "an overt act of ideological thought policing, financed mainly by radical Hollywood activists."

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1. this will be decided by the 5 republican national committee employees on the US supreme court nt

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2. I don't see McDermott's brief swaying the judge

What an idiot.

I'm surprised the defense didn't call him as a witness. He appears to be as much an "expert" as the morons the defense put on the stand.