Barbara Olson (3rd wife)
Lady Booth (current wife)
Olson’s wife Booth has described herself as a registered Democrat. She has contributed to the campaigns of Barack Obama and Rudy Giuliani.
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He took on the case last fall, after he received a call from Chad Griffin, a gay activist in California who was part of a team looking for a lawyer to challenge Prop 8. A former in-law of Olson’s suggested they reach out to Olson. Griffin was skeptical. “He was the conservative enemy,” he recalls thinking. Griffin was surprised to find that Olson was anything but hostile. The two men talked for hours. Olson spent the next several weeks consulting with friends, fellow lawyers, and family, starting with his wife and political sparring partner, Lady Booth Olson, herself an attorney and a Democrat. He put the same question to all of them: why shouldn’t gay people have the right to marry? “I asked them to give me their best argument. They had all sorts of intangible instincts and feelings about what’s ‘right,’” he says. “But I didn’t hear any persuasive response.”
Ed Whelan, a lawyer who worked with Olson in the Bush administration, says his first reaction was “surprise, followed by disgust that Ted would abandon the legal principles he’s purported to stand for, like originalism and judicial restraint.” But Whelan also knows that Olson—who arrives at work each morning by 6:30 and reads centuries-old law texts in his spare time—is a formidable adversary. “There’s a definite chance he’ll win. That’s what makes it all the more outrageous that he’s pushing this.”
Olson is surprisingly emotional about the case, and his eyes mist up repeatedly when he talks about the hundreds of letters—positive and negative—that he’s received. “We should be welcoming our gay colleagues and friends as equals,” he says. Kristin Perry, one of the plaintiffs in the case, says that whenever Ted sees her and her partner, Sandy Stier, “he tells us, ‘I think about you two every day. This is the reason I’ve taken this case.’” Some conservatives, still trying to figure out what happened to their old friend, have asked him when he decided he was for gay marriage. Olson seems puzzled by the question. “I don’t know that I was ever against it.”
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