A win for the Equality 9  Alan Peck reports that the Equality 9
in San Diego are a step closer to justice.  Four of the Equality
9 block a doorway during their 2010 sit-in (Mark Gabrish Conlan
| Indybay.org)Four of the Equality 9 block a doorway during
their 2010 sit-in (Mark Gabrish Conlan | Indybay.org)  AS PEOPLE
took to the streets on May 1 to celebrate International Workers
Day, few were expecting a victory to emerge in the struggle for
marriage equality.  Shortly before a trial was slated to begin
for the Equality 9, protesters who were arrested during a sit-in
for same-sex marriage in 2010, San Diego Superior Court Judge
Joan Weber dismissed the entire jury, ruling that the
prosecution had deliberately dismissed the only two openly gay
jurors for no other reason than their sexual orientation.
Should the prosecution choose to pursue the trial, it will have
to start over with a new jury pool on September 18.  During the
protest where the Equality 9 were arrested on August 19, 2010,
more than 100 people