8:The Mormon Proposition will have it’s World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival which takes place January 21 - 31, 2010 in Park City, Utah.
The documentary directed by Reed Cowan and narrated by Oscar winning writer (MILK) Dustin Lance Black, is a production of David v Goliath Productions.
The documentary looks at the Mormon Church and it’s involvement in Prop 8 which took away the right for gays and lesbians to marry in California. Those who were married prior to Prop 8 were allowed to remain married however it took away any future hope for the equality of marriage to countless thousands of Californians until such time that Prop 8 can be overturned.
On Thursday in California as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, a federal judge probably violated the Constitution when he ordered backers of Proposition 8, the initiative that banned same-sex marriage in California, to give their campaign strategy documents to opponents trying to overturn the measure, an appeals court said.
The Ninth U.S. Circuit of Appeals in San Francisco suspended the order that Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker issued in October against backers of Prop. 8, which state voters approved in November 2008.
Walker said lawyers for two same-sex couples and a gay-rights group were entitled to see internal memos and e-mails between Yes on 8 strategists to look for evidence that the campaign had sought to exploit anti-gay bias. Such evidence would strengthen the plaintiffs’ claim that the ballot measure was discriminatory and thus unconstitutional.
Prop. 8 sponsors argued that their discussions were constitutionally protected and that orders such as Walker’s would discourage candid communications in political campaigns.
Writer’s note – this posting which originally just had the video clip and link to the production company website, has been moved up from it’s original posting date of October 20, 2009 to include the screening announcement and the above news. For a related posting about the Mormon Church go here.
