Prop. 8 Trial: Stanford Professor Says Obama 'Not a Reliable Ally'

Source: blogs.laweekly. Posted By: Bill 5452 days ago

dent Barack Obama took a hit at the Proposition 8 trial in San Francisco on Wednesday, when Stanford University professor Gary Segura said Obama is "not a reliable ally" of the gay community.

The criticism of the president was a key legal point made by the Prop. 8 plaintiffs' lawyers, who want to overturn California's gay marriage ban, to show that gays and lesbians are not politically powerful and need legal protections from the courts.

San Jose Mercury News reporter Howard Mintz writes that....

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