LGBT POV

Yusef Robb, from the American Foundation for Equal Rights, just announced that trial transcripts from the federal challenge to Prop 8 will be posted on their site. Here’s the press release:

The American Foundation for Equal Rights will starting today post to our website at www.equalrightsfoundation.org/our-work/hearing-transcripts/ transcripts of the Perry v. Schwarzenegger trial.

Available immediately are the transcripts from all past days of trial. Yesterdays transcript is still forthcoming.

Please note that while we hope to post these transcripts daily, their availability is subject to change.

Please note these transcripts may be read, linked to and quoted from, but not reposted or sold in any way.

UPDATE: The Olson/Boies legal team introduced into evidence videos of the depositions of Paul Nathanson, Ph.D. and Katherine Young, Ph.D., who are among the experts dropped by the defendants from their witness list.

Nathanson and Young, professors at McGill University, were questioned by David Boies.  In their depositions, they make statements that seem to support marriage equality, according to AFER, that:

“equal marriage would increase family stability, improve the lives of children, and that gay men and lesbians have faced a long history of discrimination including violence. They also acknowledge broad scientific and professional consensus in favor of equal marriage.”

Here’s Katherine Young:

Here’s Paul Nathanson: