Today was more historic testimony in the Prop 8 Trial. Dr. Bill Tam was at first supposed to be a witness for the defense, but when they found out he was a nutcase, they tried to exclude him from testifying. The Plaintiffs were able to bring him in as a "hostile witness" and thank god, he a glowing example of hatred, fear, and plain old crazy. Here are some selected quotes.
B: Your honor, this was already admitted in the testimony of Ms. Zia. This website says that homosexuality leads to pedophilia. Do you believe that?
T: Yes, I do.
B: Reads: Homosexuals 12 times more likely to molest children. Appropriate for your organization to tell people that?
T: Which organization?
B: The organization of which you are secretary that puts out this website!
T: Yes. From what we see here, those are not the statements of the organization. Those are just links to other websites. My position is that if there is something like this that people want to read about, organization has the right to link it.
B: You are not just linking. Your website says that homosexuals are 12 times more likely to molest children.
T: It’s in that website. It’s not from the organization.
B: Mr. Tam, this is print out from your website!
T: From the organization. But I’m only secretary. There are presidents and vice presidents.
B: Do you believe that homosexuals are more likely to molest children?
T: Yes, I do.
B: Based on what?
T: From academic papers.
B: Which academic papers?
T: Some could be news and some could be journalists.
B: I’m not asking you what it could be. Was it a book? An article? Who wrote it?
T: I don’t remember. I don’t know.
[Boies is really, really good. You could hear a pin drop up here and based on the judge’s facial expressions, in the courtroom. Boies is establishing the nexus with ProtectMarriage.com that they use this stuff as the reason for Prop. 8, which fits in with the stigma and all the great stuff we learned last week. By the way, I’m really nauseated. Truly.]
David Boies (B): You say here that if we lose Prop. 8 “they” will lose no time to push the gay agenda?
William Tam (T): Yes. They will.
B: You say here that the City of SF is under the rule of homosexuals. Do you believe that?
T: Yes.
B: Who?
T: Tom Ammiano was supervisor.
B: Was the mayor homosexual?
T: I don’t think so.
B: I don’t think so either.
B: You said that you thought Prop. 8 would lead to legalizing prostitution. Why?
T: Measure K in SF. I saw some homosexuals hanging around there.
B: You know that Measure K has nothing to do with Prop. 8.
T: Yes.
B: You told people that next will be legalizing sex with children. That’s the homosexual agenda. Do you believe this?
T: Yes.
B: Here’s a flyer that says Prop. 8 protects against social, moral decay. What is the social, moral decay?
T: Well, from Christian angle, homosexuality or sex between two persons of the same sex is a sin.
B: You were saying that Prop. 8 protects against homosexuality?
T: No. But I agree with this. If same sex marriage is legal, it would encourage children to explore same sex as their marriage partner. From Asian as well as Christian angle, we think this is social, moral decay.
B: Second document which is from 1man1woman dot net, more specific. Says that if same sex marriage passes it will lead to incest, pedophilia and polygamy. Do you agree with that?
T: Yes.
B: That’s what you told people to get them to vote for Prop. 8?
T: Yes.
B: Your paper says that after Netherlands legalized SS marriage, Netheralands legalized incest and polygamy. Do you believe that?
T: Same sex marriage may not have led to legalization of incest and polygamy, but it happened.
B: Who told you that?
T: I found it on the Internet. I did not write this that polygamy was legalized in 2005.