American Foundation for Equal Rights

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Revisit Marriage Equality’s Truth Commission

Introduction

By Adam Umhoefer, AFER Executive Director
Revisit the marriage equality truth commission through daily summaries, quotes and photos. As we prepare to take our case for full marriage equality to the U.S. Supreme Court, AFER highlights each day of the 2010 Prop. 8 trial as it happened.

Read Adam’s full introduction >

Day 1 Day 1 Day 3
Day 3 Day 3 Day 6
Day 3 Day 8 Day 9
Day 10 Day 11 Day 12

Watercolors by Vicki Ellen Beheringer

Witness Testimony

Day 1, January 11

Day 2,  January 12

Day 3, January 13

Day 4, January 14

  • Egan Edmund, chief economist for the City and County of San Francisco
  • Ilan Meyer, professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences  at Columbia University

Day 5, January 15

  •  Helen Zia, award-winning writer
  • Michael Lamb, professor and head of the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology at the University of Cambridge, England

Day 6 , January 19

Day 7, January 20

Day 8, January 21

Day 9, January 22

  • Gregory M. Herek, professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis

Day 10, January 25

  • Kenneth Miller, professor of political science at Claremont McKenna College

Day 11, January 26

Day 12, January 27