CA: Another Prop 8 Trial Recap From Edge Boston

Monday, Jan. 25, was not a good day for Claremont McKenna College political science professor Kenneth Miller. Appearing as an expert witness for proponents of Proposition 8, he was the defense lead-off in the federal bench trial challenging California’s same-sex marriage ban. He was originally called in to show the political clout of the LGBT community that the proponents say make court intervention unnecessary. But his testimony came off as ill informed and ill prepared under cross-examination from plaintiffs attorney David Boies.

Boies conceded Miller’s expertise in American politics but challenged his credentials as an expert on LGBT discrimination. Defense attorney David Thompson claimed he had focused on LGBT politics from the 1970s on.

Boies, however, sharply asked him what the Mattachine Society was. Miller did admitted he didn’t know what that seminal pre-Stonewall gay-rights organizations was when he was deposed earlier. Since then, he countered, he studied their role in LGBT activism. OK, Boies, continued, so who’s Allen Spears and Elaine Noble? He didn’t know.

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