Prop 8 coverage banned.

[pasithea]

In an emergency move, supreme court has blocked video coverage of the prop-8 case after pleas from the right wing that they might face discrimination when they present and empty case based on fear and ignorance....

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-prop-8-12-2010jan12,0,7701011.story

Oh yes. Gay on straight violence is SUCH a problem.

Those men must live in fear of a vicious gang of lesbians showing up in front of their home and singing protest songs out of key while brutally abusing G-chords on acoustic guitars.

Wow. Compared to bombing gay bars, beating young boys to death and setting them on fire, and hundreds of violent assaults per year, it's easy to see why they're so scared.

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[pseudomanitou.livejournal.com]

Isn't that why right-wing-nuts commit violence against gays?- because they are scared?

Let's face it -- these people aren't bullies first, they are cowards. They seek power so they can be bullies.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Just bugs me. Their reason for wanting no cameras seems even more baseless than their reason for prop 8 in the first place.

In this type of hearing, there is no jury to be biased and everything will be a matter of public record and the case is of course about public interests so you'd think it something of a no brainer that the public actually be allowed to see what's going on. There simply isn't enough space in the audience seating of the courtroom to allow all the interested people to come and watch.

And as for their supposed fear of retribution... I could have SWORE there was something in the 6th amendment about the right to know your accuser, and let's face it. The language of 'Protect Marriage' implies quite strongly that gays are some kind of threat. I know I'm stretching the definition a bit here but constitutional law was intentionally vague and I think there's a good case for covering this sort of discrimination.

If there were a court case pending to restore slavery or repeal suffrage, doesn't it seem like the public should be entitled to see who is fucking with their life and why?

If it were a case being decided by a jury I might feel differently. I'm even a bit iffy on whether or not class action cases should be immediately publicly accessible, but a matter of state constitution which does NOT a real defendant (IE a person our corporation) this one seems pretty clear-cut.