SRN adds daily update from controversial “Prop 8 trial”

Salem Radio Network’s The Hugh Hewitt Show has just added a live, daily update from the controversial “Proposition 8 trial” which opened Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Each day, attorney Jordan Lorence of the Alliance Defense Fund (which is serving as co-counsel for defendants in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, will exit the San Francisco courtroom to update Hewitt’s listeners on the lawsuit…filed by pro-Gay Marriage forces seeking to overturn the will of California voters by striking down a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman. (Alliance Defense Fund attorneys are co-counsel in the lawsuit together with lead counsel Charles J. Cooper and ADF-allied attorney Andrew Pugno, who represents the official proponents and campaign committee of Proposition 8.)

SRN V.P. of News & Talk Programming Tom Tradup, noting the nationwide interest in this trial especially among conservatives, states: “In America, we should respect and uphold the right of a free people to make social policy choices through the democratic process.” Tradup adds, “If a handful of activists can void a constitutional amendment adopted by 7 million Californians, we have forfeited the very core of the American democratic system--especially in this case, where the people of California affirmed something that predates America itself. So Hugh Hewitt is devoting part of his nationally-syndicated program to updating listeners on the daily courtroom developments in Perry vs. Schwarzenegger.”

The show airs from 6PM-9PM (Eastern time) weekdays on the Salem Radio Network.