Media Coalition Wants To Televise Prop 8 Proceedings!
Posted on Wed Dec 30th, 2009 11:55am PDT By X17 Staff
This would be a first!
The case to overturn Prop 8 - which is California's ban on gay marriage - begins in the U.S. District court in San Francisco next month, and media groups are asking Judge Vaughn Walker permission to broadcast/webcast the court proceedings...
Interestingly, the plaintiffs (those seeking to overturn Prop 8) do not object to the idea, but defenders of the proposition do, claiming their witnesses might be subject to "intimidation."
Given the historic nature of this case, public interest has undoubtedly risen. Attorney Thomas Burke - representing the media coalition - has this to say: "It is not about a crime or an individual. The issues in this case are political, social, religious. It has got it all."
So should the trial be televised?
