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A film distribution company has bought the rights to a documentary about the Mormon church's role in a California ballot initiative to ban gay marriage. Filmmaker Reed Cowan says "8: The Mormon Proposition" will hit theaters this spring and a DVD will follow. Cowan says he sold the film's North American distribution rights to Red Flag Releasing.

On Wednesday several coalitions of church groups, psychology organizations and  civil rights groups asked a federal judge in San Francisco to overturn  California's ban on same-sex marriage. The groups' pleas were made in so-called friend-of-the-court  briefs filed in support of two same-sex couples who are challenging the ban  enacted by state voters in 2008 as Proposition 8.

The same-sex marriage trial in San Francisco last month broke  ground not only as the first federal trial of its kind, but also in  generating a new level of Internet media coverage. The 12-day trial on the constitutionality of California's same-sex  marriage ban was reported on in dozens of live blogs and Twitter feeds and on  Facebook as well as in conventional radio, television and newspapers.

Testimony has ended in a federal case challenging California's ban on same-sex marriage. Lawyers for the sponsors of Proposition 8 tentatively rested their case Wednesday after introducing materials from the 2008 election campaign. The trial is exploring whether states that deny gays and lesbians the right to wed are violating the U.S. Constitution.

A political scientist testifying for the sponsors of California's same-sex marriage measure acknowledges that gays and lesbians face significant discrimination in the workplace. Claremont McKenna College Professor Kenneth Miller said under cross-examination Tuesday that he did not know how frequently gay Americans are fired or harassed at work but assumed it happens often. Miller was called as a defense witness in the trial, the first in a federal court to examine whether decisions by states denying gays the right to wed violate their constitutional rights.

Despite rumored anti-gay protests, a Sundance Film Festival documentary about the Mormon church's role in a 2008 California political battle over gay marriage played to a friendly audience on Sunday in Park City. Only about two dozen gay marriage activists chanted - "Separate, church from 8" - in a parking lot outside the premiere of "8: The Mormon Proposition."

Supporters of Proposition 8 brought their first witness to the stand Monday in a federal trial in San Francisco on the constitutionality of California’s ban on same-sex marriage. U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker is presiding over a trial on a lawsuit in which two same-sex couples are challenging California's ban, enacted by voters as Proposition 8 in 2008. Monday is the 10th day of the trial in the case, which will be decided by Walker without a jury and is considered likely to eventually reach the U.S. Supreme Court.

Sexual orientation can be fluid, but the vast majority of people have identities that are consistently heterosexual, gay or bisexual throughout most of their lives, a social psychologist testified Friday in a trial challenging California's gay marriage ban. Lawyers for two same-sex couples suing to overturn the voter-enacted ban called University of California, Davis researcher Gregory Herek as their final expert witness to bolster their argument that sexual orientation cannot be easily changed.

A key proponent of California's same-sex marriage ban says he thinks gays are more likely to be pedophiles and that allowing them to wed would lead to efforts to lower the age at which teenagers can legally have sex with adults.  Lawyers for two couples suing to overturn the ban, known as Proposition 8, called San Francisco resident Hak-Shing William Tam to testify Thursday as a hostile witness to prove that bias toward gays fueled the campaign to pass the measure.