…irreparable and totally unnecessary harm…

“We are imposing great damage on them (same-sex couples) by the … state of California saying they are different and they cannot have the happiness, they cannot have the privacy, they cannot have the liberty, they cannot have the intimate association in the context of a marriage that the rest of our citizens do. We have demonstrated during this trial that that causes grave and permanent, irreparable and totally unnecessary harm, because we are withholding from them … that right of marriage in the context of the intimate relationship. We are withholding that from them, hurting them and we are doing no good.”

–Lawyer Ted Olson at the closing of the federal Prop 8 trial, June 16 in San Francisco.

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