CA: Appeals Court Says OK to Prop 8 Trial YouTube Posting

A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a bid by Proposition 8 supporters to block the broadcast of the upcoming trial involving a challenge to California's same-sex marriage ban, refusing to stop a plan to post the proceedings on YouTube. In a one-paragraph order, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that the Proposition 8 campaign had not presented reason for "intervention by this court" in the broadcast issue. Lawyers for the Proposition 8 campaign had argued that Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker did not have the legal authority to permit cameras in the trial, which is set to begin Monday in San Francisco. Proposition 8 backers say that broadcasting the proceedings "is likely to negatively affect the fairness of the trial." Full Story from Mercury News: http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_14150063?source=rss

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Daughter Talks About Gay Fathers' Wedding on YouTube

Chelsea Montgomery-Duban wanted to invite people to see inside her family, so she used YouTube. There, she posted a message told through laughter and tears the speech the 16-year-old gave while standing at the wedding altar of the men she refers to as "Dad" and "Daddy." "According to me, marriage is not just a man and a woman. It is two people who love each other and promise to be together in sickness and in health," Montgomery-Duban says in the video. "Marriage is not even a beautiful white dress. But it is love blossoming between two individuals and the promise that what they have together can only get better." Full Story from the Sun Herald: http://www.sunherald.com/love/story/1624785.html

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