Why Didn't Maggie Take The Stand?

Jason Kuznicki is still amazed at "how extraordinarily weak the expert testimony for the defense was" in the Prop 8 case:

I asked myself — couldn't they have gotten Maggie Gallagher to testify?She comes across as reasonable most of the time. She might have offeredone of her frequent catch phrases, that societies that "lose themarriage idea" die out. As a sound bite, it's frightening and oftenconvincing. But at trial, she'd have been asked the obvious follow-upquestion — name just one such...