Ninth Circuit Court Dept: Throughout that historic trial, supporters of gay marriage re-enacted every syllable of the testimony as faithfully as they could, videotaped their performances and posted them on the internet at marriagetrial.com , according to CBC. At the same time, Prop 8's backers took the opposite approach and ducked whatever attention they could. A Stockton, Calif., man lends his support to gay marriage outside City Hall in San Francisco in August 2010. On Aug. 4, Judge Vaughn Walker struck down the California same-sex marriage ban, known as Proposition 8, and the case was immediately appealed to the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which this week put off a formal hearing and any resumption of gay marriage until December. Ben Margot/Associated Press For two cold weeks in January , a Federal Court in San Francisco heard arguments about whether the right of same-sex couples to marry could be taken away, as it was, by the referendum known as Proposition 8. What was taking place in court, they said, deserved as wide an audience as possible. As
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