Cross examine fear and prejudice

A couple days ago I included a link to an interview of Ted Olson, a lead lawyer on our side in the Calif. gay marriage case, in which he said voting to ban gay marriage is like voting to ban freedom of speech. That link included a video of his legal partner in the case David Boies. At the time I didn't watch it because the moderator puts Boies up against Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council (their research is in how to smear gays). I didn't want to wade through all the nonsense. Though I did, you don't have to. In response to Perkins' nonsense Boies said it's easy to appeal to people's fear and prejudice in a campaign where one isn't cross-examined. It's quite another to do that in a court of law. And in this court of law the fear and prejudice were shown to be grounded on nothing but junk science. The whole worthwhile quote is here.