Bill Moyers Journal (video: MarriageTrial at YouTube)
Attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies discussed the ongoing Prop 8 trial, Perry v Schwarzenegger, with PBS’s Bill Moyers. Embedding the video is not allowed, but you can kick back and watch it Chez Moyers.
Moyers sets the stage:
It’s true. Ted Olson, a conservative, and David Boies, a liberal, are in the middle of a case that, win or lose, they expect, will wind up at the Supreme Court, just like Bush v. Gore. The former adversaries have united in support of core American values: diversity, equality and tolerance. They’re key players in one of the most important civil rights trials of the last decade. It’s a pivotal legal action that could change our society, but which has escaped the attention of much of the country.
Oh! And, as a bonus, PBS viewers get to relive the paranoid insanity of the National Organization for Marriage‘s craptastic Gathering Storm commerical — the much-parodied ad issued right before NOM’s Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown got their hooks into christianist porn princess Carrie Prejean.
(emphasis: mine)
(tip: Andy Towle, Towleroad)
