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warrior1

(12,325 posts) Mon Mar 25, 2013, 10:01 AM Mar 2013

Chief justice's lesbian cousin will attend Prop. 8 hearing

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-prop.8-chief-justices-cousin-a-lesbian-will-attend-prop-8-hearing-20130324,0,834185.story

SAN FRANCISCO--Jean Podrasky, 48, a lesbian who wants to marry her partner, will be at Tuesday’s U.S. Supreme Court hearing on Proposition 8 in seating reserved for family members and guests of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.

“I am so excited,” said Podrasky, an accountant and the first cousin of the chief justice on his mother’s side. “I feel quite honored and overwhelmed.”

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Chief justice's lesbian cousin will attend Prop. 8 hearing (Original Post) warrior1 Mar 2013 OP

Sounds like a good thing... nt AnotherDreamWeaver Mar 2013 #1

She won't be so happy after he rules to deny her rights. kestrel91316 Mar 2013 #2

I would assume these seats are "invitation only" 4_TN_TITANS Mar 2013 #3

AnotherDreamWeaver

(2,850 posts)

1. Sounds like a good thing... nt

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Mon Mar 25, 2013, 11:32 AM

Mar 2013

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)

2. She won't be so happy after he rules to deny her rights.

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Mon Mar 25, 2013, 11:41 AM

Mar 2013

4_TN_TITANS

(2,977 posts)

3. I would assume these seats are "invitation only"

Reply to warrior1 (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2013, 02:41 PM

Mar 2013

that any family or friends can't just walk in. Why would Roberts invite his openly gay cousin to see her hopes crushed??? Personally, I take this as a very good sign - maybe that he even intends to be the deciding vote for federal marriage equality. One can only hope.

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