Republican Mayor says that daughter 'Deserves' to be married

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Posted by Administrator in Politics on January 20, 2010  |  0 Comments More from this author  |

San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders, a staunch Republican who only recently became a supporter of gay marriage, took center stage at the Proposition 8 trial in San Francisco on Tuesday, telling the court that his lesbian daughter "deserves the same opportunity to have a wedding in front of family, friends and co-workers."

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Lisa Sanders, the mayor's daughter, sat in the courtroom as her father repeatedly became emotional during his testimony, San Jose Mercury News reporter Howard Mintz wrote yesterday.

Unsurprisingly, attorneys looking to uphold Proposition 8 downplayed Sanders' comments, according to Mintz.

Prop. 8 lawyer Andrew Pugno told U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, who's presiding over the case, that Sanders' remarks were "just irrelevant" and "emotional testimony about feelings" that have nothing to do with the legal questions involved in the lawsuit.

But Margaret Talbot of The New Yorker sees Sanders as an effective witness for the plaintiffs, who has "impeccable" conservative credentials but changed his previous anti-gay marriage stance because he felt it was the right thing to do.

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