It’s just tickles their tiny little hearts when the radical religious right gets its claws into an activist judge who buys their bigoted malarkey. Consequently, the Executive Director of the National Organization for Marriage, Brian Brown, is singing the praises of Justice Anthony Kennedy in an email just sent from wherever the Hell the nomadic NOM is calling home these days. Justice Kennedy, in his black robes, led the Scalia-Thomas faction of the Court in its malevolent attack on transparency, and that resulted in the pro-Prop 8 side being allowed to continue cowering beneath their white robes and pointy hoods at the Perry v Schwarzenegger — AKA Olson-Boies — trial in San Francisco.
And it also makes the second time that Justice Anthony Kennedy has stepped forward to try to protect at least the process, to create a more even playing field for supporters of marriage. You will remember it was Justice Kennedy who granted an emergency stay that prevented the release of the names of thousands of Washingtonians who signed a petition overturning an “all-but-marriage” bill, after some gay-marriage advocates said they would try to replicate the effort in California to post these names on the internet.
Justice Kennedy joined four other justices to keep Judge Walker from hastily lifting the TV ban in order to televise the Prop 8 trial: “The balance of equities favors applicants. While applicants have demonstrated the threat of harm they face if the trial is broadcast, respondents have not alleged any harm if the trial is not broadcast.”
And who appointed three of those four justices? The man Jesus Christ himself put in the White House, the “worst President in American history,” George W Bush.
And it’s especially special when Brown patronizingly, albeit probably correctly, suggests his loyal followers are too stoopid to comprehend legalese:
I want to include some lengthy quotes from the opinion. If legalese is not your thing, skip over them. But I think those of us who went through the experience of Prop 8 will appreciate that at least five of the nine Justices of the Supreme Court recognize that the wave of intimidation and harassment was quite simply wrong.
Brown then mashes up a badly formatted collection of buzzwords and phrases like “death threats” and “powdery white substance,” as if the source of that non-toxic mystery powder was ever discovered. It was not. For all we know, the Mormon elders themselves or Maggie Gallagher mailed it to the Mormons.
There was most definitely an upsurge of violence in the wake of Prop 8, only it seems almost entirely directed at gay and lesbian Californians:
The truth about Brian Brown’s intelligence comes later in his missive:
The most amusing thing is watching the San Francisco expert’s case on how gay marriage is going to economically benefit the government fall apart under questioning. Really, is that the best you can do? Overturn the people’s right to amend their own constitution to protect marriage–so San Francisco can collect some sales tax revenue from wedding ceremonies?
Does Brian Brown actually grasp that is the constitutionality of Prop 8 that is on trial and not the right of Californians to amend California’s Constitution, or is this flack just zooming his flock as usual?
