Hak-Shing William Tam, an attorney who spent a year working to effect passage of Prop 8, and “urged” the judge in next week’s David Boies/Ted Olson federal marriage case to be an official litigant, now fears for the safety of his family and himself. And he can’t understand why a letter he wrote to his church might cause people to be upset. He now is asking the  judge to remove him from the case.
I say, no one should ever perpetrate violence. The law should protect this man and his family. But you have to ask if his claims of possible violence from “gay activists” is just one more tactic in his determination to keep children from Satan. Yes, “Satan.”
Via The New York Times:
“In the months leading up the [Prop 8] trial, lawyers for two unmarried same-sex couples on whose behalf the case was brought complained that Proposition 8’s sponsors were withholding evidence to which the plaintiffs were entitled by citing a letter they had uncovered written by [Hak-Shing William]Â Tam to members of his church during the campaign.
“In the letter, Tam outlined what he described as the disastrous consequences for allowing gays to marry in California.
‘‘One by one, other states would fall into Satan’s hands,” he wrote. ”Every child, when growing up, would fantasize marrying someone of the same sex. More children would become homosexuals.”
“The contents could come up in the trial because one of the issues is whether the measure’s backers were motivated by anti-gay bias.”