Make Your Own Equality on Trial Video

Testimony: Equality on Trial is a website asking people to record the transcripts of the Prop * trial. As you know, we weren’t allowed to watch Perry v. Schwarzenegger – the Proposition 8 federal trial – after the Prop 8 bigots asked the Supreme Court to block Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision to televise the trial.

At the site you can view reenactments of the trial or upload your videos based on scripts selected with the help of Academy Award-winning producer Bruce Cohen, who culled through three weeks of oral arguments to get to the real meat of the trial.

I invite you all- readers, listeners, video bloggers, friends and family to pick a script and post it in the comments here and then I’ll assemble one big entry with all of them in it. (Use the “embed” code on Youtube- not just the link, but if you have a problem, I can easily fix it)

Also, please upload your video to their site as well. I don’t want to hijack their mojo but we have such a great community here I think it it would be neat to view each other’s interpretations of the trial.

I’d love to see all the folks at Feast of Fun do all 10 of the scripts. What do you say? Which script do you want to do? Maybe we can get Marsian to do the voice of Cookie Puss or Fausto as Eartha Kitt. I know Rick Aiello does a fabulous Miss Piggy and maybe Michael Lehet could return as horrible homophobe William Tam. Or some of our foreign friends with sexy accents!

Read more about it on Wall Street Journal
Prop 8 Trial Testimony Gets a Marisa Tomei Makeover

Today the Courage Campaign, an online organizing network for progressive causes, launched a Web site dedicated to re-enactments of the ongoing trial. At equalityontrial.org, they’ve posted videos of a handful of celebrities — including Oscar winner Marisa Tomei — giving dramatic readings of the court proceedings.

Acting in a West Hollywood park Tomei portrays Kristin Perry, one of the lesbian plaintiffs in the case seeking to marry her partner. Actor Josh Lucas plays Theodore Olson, one of the legal powerhouses supporting the challenge. The scene portrays the plaintiffs’ argument that gays and lesbians face discrimination in their everyday lives.

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