Theodore Boutrous Jr. told Stephanie
Miller on Friday that “everything is trending in the right
direction” on gay marriage.
Boutrous is part of the legal team
challenging the constitutionality of California's gay marriage ban,
Proposition 8.
On Thursday, a 3-judge Boston appeals
court unanimously
upheld a lower district court's ruling declaring unconstitutional the
heart of DOMA – Section 3, which bars federal agencies from
recognizing the legal marriages of gay and lesbian couples.
Boutrous appeared on The Stephanie
Miller Show to discuss the impact of the decision.
“I think that everything is trending
in the right direction,” he said. “The states rights part of the
decision I don't think suggests anything about states being able to
ban same-sex marriage. I think some of the opponents of marriage
equality have been saying that. I don't think it does that.”
“If you look at what's happened over
the last couple of weeks, you've had President Obama saying he
personally favors marriage equality, you had Colin Powell, a couple
of weeks ago Chris Wallace from Fox News said he now understands why
same-sex marriage should be permitted.”
“If you look at how it has been a
bipartisan wave, really. And so I think that helps us in the courts,
it helps us in the public. I think tremendous progress has been made
in having Republican appointees, Democrat appointees say this
violates the constitution.” (The video is embedded in the right
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