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Kadie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-12-10 12:41 PM
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Prop 8 trial day 2 (follow along on twitter)
Edited on Tue Jan-12-10 12:47 PM by Kadie
on the stand...

Havard Prof. Nancy Cott, who will testify about the history of marriage as an institution....

Cott: Sterility never a bar to marriage. George Washington was sterile!
about 1 hour ago from web

Old laws against interracial marriage were justified at the time on the grounds that god didn't want these people to mix, says Cott
37 minutes ago from web

Cott: one 1907 federal law said any american woman who married a foreigner would lose their us citizenship
34 minutes ago from web

But if an american woman married a german, the german could get us citizenship and she could keep US. Not so if she married a chinese man
33 minutes ago from web

Cott: Scotus was very cautious in repealing racial marriage laws. Could have taken a case in 1955 but waited until 1967 instead
25 minutes ago from web


follow along here...

http://twitter.com/FedcourtJunkie
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Kadie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-12-10 12:46 PM
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1. Other twitter links to follow...
http://twitter.com/Chris_Stoll


Dr. Cott notes that Massachusetts, which has marriage equality, has the lowest divorce rate in the nation. #Prop8
2 minutes ago from web
http://twitter.com/AmerEqualRights


#prop8 Cott under cross-exam, defense attempting to paint her as a marriage activist, not a neutral party.
half a minute ago from web
http://twitter.com/theadvocatemag
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