Gay Judge for Gay Marriage Trial?

From National Review Online:

According to this column in today’s San Francisco Chronicle, “The biggest open secret in the landmark trial over same-sex marriage being heard in San Francisco is that the federal judge who will decide the case, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, is himself gay.”….

From the outset, Walker’s entire course of conduct in the anti-Prop 8 case has reflected a manifest design to turn the lawsuit into a high-profile, culture-transforming, history-making, Scopes-style show trial of Prop 8’s sponsors. Consider his series of controversial — and, in many instances, unprecedented — decisions:

Take, for example, Walker’s resort to procedural shenanigans and outright illegality in support of his fervent desire to broadcast the trial, in utter disregard of (if not affirmatively welcoming) the harassment and abuse that pro–Prop 8 witnesses would reasonably anticipate. Walker’s decision was ultimately blocked by an extraordinary (and fully warranted) stay order by the Supreme Court in an opinion that was plainly a stinging rebuke of Walker’s lack of impartiality.

Take Walker’s failure to decide the case, one way or the other (as other courts have done in similar cases), as a matter of law and his concocting of supposed factual issues to be decided at trial.



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4 Responses to “Gay Judge for Gay Marriage Trial?”

1. artm says:

   February 9, 2010 at 8:24 pm

   Wake up America, The Judgment Of God is just around the corner.

   Wake up Church, It's time for the church to repent, stand up and declare the truth of God's Word.

   May God in His Grace stir the church from it's slumber while there is still time.

   Preach the Word of God without fear or compromise and let the chips fall where they will.

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2. Bobby says:

   February 10, 2010 at 12:05 pm

   We see how liberals are so wanting to push an agenda they will use every WWE-style tactic to “fix” the election.

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3. "reformed" says:

   February 10, 2010 at 3:29 pm

   Artm: Judgment begins in the house of the Lord. 1Peter4:17.

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4. artm says:

   February 11, 2010 at 1:06 am

   Reformed; AMEN

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