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elfsJudge Vaughn Walker, the judge in the current Proposition 8 case, is gay.
There are going to be accusations from just about the entire right-wing world that this was a set-up, that the judge is biased and the processes designed to make them look stupid. Never mind that they did that to themselves. Never mind that not a single person going before the court on behalf of Proposition 8 could actually make a case for there being anything wrong with homosexual marriage, that several of Proposition 8's own presentations made Proposition 8 look bad, that one of the defendants actually wrote in opposition to Prop 8 just two years earlier, and another wrote in opposition to the initiative process being used to take power away from minorities. The first said he "no longer believed" what he had published twelve months prior, and the second argued that homosexuals don't constitute "a minority." (This is why you're hearing the phrase "homosexual acts" so often these days; it's a lawyerly attempt by the right to redefine homosexuality as something you do, rather than an identity.)
Proposition 8 Tracker has an email from the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) claiming that the bias is "so big and obvious" that the Supremes will have no choice but to slap it down.
It's sort-of a shame this happened this way. It'll distract from the incredibly poor and ugly arguments that the pro-8 side put up.
There are going to be accusations from just about the entire right-wing world that this was a set-up, that the judge is biased and the processes designed to make them look stupid. Never mind that they did that to themselves. Never mind that not a single person going before the court on behalf of Proposition 8 could actually make a case for there being anything wrong with homosexual marriage, that several of Proposition 8's own presentations made Proposition 8 look bad, that one of the defendants actually wrote in opposition to Prop 8 just two years earlier, and another wrote in opposition to the initiative process being used to take power away from minorities. The first said he "no longer believed" what he had published twelve months prior, and the second argued that homosexuals don't constitute "a minority." (This is why you're hearing the phrase "homosexual acts" so often these days; it's a lawyerly attempt by the right to redefine homosexuality as something you do, rather than an identity.)
Proposition 8 Tracker has an email from the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) claiming that the bias is "so big and obvious" that the Supremes will have no choice but to slap it down.
It's sort-of a shame this happened this way. It'll distract from the incredibly poor and ugly arguments that the pro-8 side put up.
