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Three questions for ... Theodore Olson
SF Chronicle ^ | 10.18.09

Posted on 10/18/2009 1:16:28 PM PDT by trumandogz

Of all the lawyers who might have challenged California's ban on same-sex marriage, one of the least likely candidates would seem to be Theodore Olson: a high-ranking Justice Department attorney under Ronald Reagan, U.S. solicitor general under George W. Bush, and lawyer for Bush in the Bush vs. Gore case that decided the 2000 presidential election. But when a federal judge in San Francisco held a critical hearing last week in a suit by two same-sex couples challenging Proposition 8, they were represented by Olson and David Boies, his courtroom adversary in Bush vs. Gore. Before the hearing, Olson talked with Chronicle staff writer Bob Egelko about the case.

Q: How did a conservative Republican like you come to support gay rights?

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: boies; homosexualagenda; prop8; tedolson
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1 posted on 10/18/2009 1:16:29 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: trumandogz

I have a question. What would Barbara think?


2 posted on 10/18/2009 1:19:56 PM PDT by Regulator (Welcome to Zimbabwe! Now hand over your property....)
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To: trumandogz

Theodore Olson as in Ted Olson? Freeper from way back (late 90s) and Barbara Olson’s husband?


3 posted on 10/18/2009 1:21:08 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: trumandogz

With the composite of the current Court, Olson and Boies will have the the votes of Stevens, Ginsburg, Bryer, Sotomayor and most likelyKennedy, who wrote the majority opinion in Lawrence v. Texas.


4 posted on 10/18/2009 1:21:21 PM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: trumandogz

I was really surprized and saddened when I heard earlier in the year that Olson was going to represent the plaintifs in this case.


5 posted on 10/18/2009 1:21:40 PM PDT by FrdmLvr ("The people will believe what the media tells them they believe." Orwell)
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To: Regulator

My question is . .why are you doing this (honest answer expected) . . . how much you being paid? . . . and who’s paying you?


6 posted on 10/18/2009 1:23:04 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: trumandogz
Bay area upbringing, Berkely Education=train up a young child in the way he should go and when he is older, he will not depart from it.

This is helping the gays push their agenda in the face of the rest of us. Legal unions are one thing--gives them all the legality they could wish for. Marriage is quite another.

I wonder what his deceased wife, Barbara, would think.

vaudine

7 posted on 10/18/2009 1:25:22 PM PDT by vaudine
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To: trumandogz

Just another loafer wearing, lib republican elitist.


8 posted on 10/18/2009 1:28:39 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: trumandogz

Morality to lawyers is written $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$4


9 posted on 10/18/2009 1:28:51 PM PDT by mefistofelerevised
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To: vaudine

While I am not sure of the opinion of Barbara Olson, I am quite sure of the opinions of Justices, Stevens, Bryer, Ginsburg, Kennedy and Sotomayor.


10 posted on 10/18/2009 1:29:25 PM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: mnehring

Yup!


11 posted on 10/18/2009 1:34:02 PM PDT by Prov3456
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To: trumandogz

Hired guns.

They don’t do it for kicks.


12 posted on 10/18/2009 1:50:48 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself)
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To: trumandogz

And lawyers wonder why they’re as deeply despised as they are.


13 posted on 10/18/2009 1:53:45 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
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To: mefistofelerevised
Morality to lawyers is written $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$4

No,I think morality to lawyers involves more than $4. ;-)

14 posted on 10/18/2009 1:55:18 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
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To: trumandogz

I think he has one or two sons and maybe one of them is gay.


15 posted on 10/18/2009 1:55:41 PM PDT by BlueAngel
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To: trumandogz
"if individuals love one another and want to live in a stable relationship recognized by the state as a community and a family, that strikes me as a conservative value"

By that definition, pedophilic "marriage" is A-Ok, as is polygamy and incestuous marriage. Why not bestiality? Love is love, right?


16 posted on 10/18/2009 2:19:42 PM PDT by montag813 (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. -George Orwell)
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To: vaudine
Legal unions are one thing--gives them all the legality they could wish for. Marriage is quite another.

I disagree. They are virtually one and the same - or soon will be.

17 posted on 10/18/2009 2:41:51 PM PDT by fwdude (It is not the liberals who will destroy this country, but the "moderates.")
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To: montag813
I believe by “individuals” he is referring to adult consenting humans.
18 posted on 10/18/2009 2:51:16 PM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: A_Former_Democrat
Yer weird

Maybe you should reconvert back...

19 posted on 10/18/2009 3:59:53 PM PDT by Regulator (Welcome to Zimbabwe! Now hand over your property....)
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To: Regulator

Thanks.

Maybe you didn’t realize I was talking about Ted, not you?


20 posted on 10/18/2009 4:01:43 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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