My guess is that NOM and ADF will peg Ware as a radical liberal activist judge along with a big picture so everyone can see that he’s black (and therefore obviously a radical activist out to push minorities ahead of The People). Nowhere will they mention that he’s a lifelong Republican.

Failing those, likely they’ll say all over again that the AG, as was everyone involved, like Cooper or reps from his office and that of the ADF, had received threats and were too afraid to show up in court.

However much they show up everywhere ELSE to testify, so to speak.

I’m looking forward to how NOM and FRC et al, respond to Ware, and his decision.
Any bets it will be because he’s in a mixed marriage and all the other legal precedents were regarding mixed marriage so HE has a stake in the outcome of Prop. 8?

Or maybe they’ll just attack him outright. Like they did the justices in Iowa.
We shall see, won’t we?

If the Prop8 proponents thought they had made a compelling case, they would be demanding that the tapes be released on Netflix.

Hey now, Richard, be serious… they’d be hocking it for $20 a pop with every ‘dire alert’ email blast they send out. This is the Professional Anti-Gay Lobby, after all. ;-)

The obvious fact is that the only danger from the release of the tapes is that the public would see how their case for Prop8 collapsed in the courtroom with their pathetically few and inept witnesses being under oath and cross-examined.

If the Prop8 proponents thought they had made a compelling case, they would be demanding that the tapes be released on Netflix.
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And, Ben, you nailed it on several key points.

From the admittedly sketchy posts, it seems as though the Proponents’ presumption of Walker’s bias — and that’s what their argument boiled down to — ticked Ware off.

I suspect they lost, but it will be interesting to see Ware’s opinion.

First, of course, they are NOT disputing the facts of walker’s decision, only that he is gay. It’s called an ad hominem attack– if you can’t dispute the logic, attack the man instead.

Second, they were not able to provide an even remotely credible defense. They just threw a lot of mud, hoping some would stick. Their “star” witness was unqualified, at best. And admitted that NOM’s “defense” was completely bogus.

Third, if marriage equality is a threat to ALL heterosexual marriages and families, then no heterosexual judge could be impartial. After all, marriage equality, by NOM’s own rhetoric, is a threat the freedom, children, heterosexual marriage, family, and faith. Who could be objective in that situation?

They also claim the judge walker could benefit by being married, thus admitting that California’s domestic partnerships are in fact NOT the equal of legal civil marriage.

It’s just the same plain old ugly anti-gay bigotry, dressed up in its Sunday-go-to-meetin’ drag, and funded by the Catholic Church and their Mormon friends-for-the-moment