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Loading ...Prop 8 marriage trial re-enacted, on YouTube
02.02.2010 2:11pm EST
(San Francisco) The U.S. Supreme Court may have stopped broadcasts of California’s same-sex marriage trial, but that has not prevented filmmakers from re-enacting it for the Internet.
Two Los Angeles-based filmmakers have used transcripts, bloggers in the courtroom and professional actors to help recreate the trial. The first of 12 episodes – each covering a day of the trial – appeared on YouTube on Monday.Filmmaker John Ireland says the goal was to allow Americans to judge the constitutionality of Proposition 8, which restricted marriage to a man and a woman. Ireland and fellow filmmaker John Ainsworth oppose the ban.
The Supreme Court last month blocked a plan to have testimony in the trial uploaded to YouTube, saying it could subject supporters of Proposition 8 to harassment.
Nice! Of course the nutjobs will immediately say they weren’t being portrayed properly/fairly.
Is there a link to where these videos can be viewed?
i believe harrasment if verbal is covered under the 1st amendment for free speech the judge must be either ignorant or he has already made up his mind
Why is it okay for these Prop. 8 proponents to harrass the gays, by trying to take away Constitutional rights, based on Religious reasoning; however, it is illegal to “harrass” these same people by our speaking to them about their antiquated ideas and values. Free speech, indeed. Just another right denied the victims in this whole debacle — this time by a supposedly unbiased judge. Who wants to take bets on the judge’s final decision — aye, he’ll let Prop. 8 stand; nay, he’ll knock it down as unconstitutional?
P.S. Is there an answer to Zack Carbon’s questions re: a link to these videos?
Yes. Here you go. Nicely done too.
http://www.marriagetrial.com/