United States District Court For the Northern District of California
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Katami and Stier testified about the effect Proposition 8
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campaign advertisements had on their well-being.
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that he was angry and upset at the idea that children needed to be
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protected from him.
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message, PX0401 (Video, Tony Perkins, Miles McPherson, and Ron
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Prentice Asking for Support of Proposition 8), Katami stated that
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“it just demeans you.
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putting efforts into discriminating against you.”
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Stier, as the mother of four children, was especially disturbed at
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the message that Proposition 8 had something to do with protecting
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children.
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to educate people or convince people that there was a great evil to
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be feared and that evil must be stopped and that evil is us, I
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guess. * * * And the very notion that I could be part of what
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others need to protect their children from was just —— it was more
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than upsetting.
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campaign.”
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Katami explained
After watching a Proposition 8 campaign
It just makes you feel like people are Tr 108:14-16.
She felt the campaign messages were “used to sort of try
It was sickening, truly.
I felt sickened by that
Tr 177:9-18. Egan and Badgett testified that Proposition 8 harms the
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State of California and its local governments economically.
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testified that San Francisco faces direct and indirect economic
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harms as a consequence of Proposition 8.
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Francisco lost and continues to lose money because Proposition 8
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slashed the number of weddings performed in San Francisco.
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explained that Proposition 8 decreases the number of married
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couples in San Francisco, who tend to be wealthier than single
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people because of their ability to specialize their labor, pool
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resources and access state and employer-provided benefits.
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Proposition 8 also increases the costs associated with 23
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Egan explained that San
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