JoB
smitty…
i have to ask…
would the judge have been any less gay had he ruled in favor of prop 8 or would his sexuality simply not have been an issue then?
my guess is that those in favor of this law assumed that this judge’s politics would overwhelm both his reason and his self interest and that his sexuality would become a selling point for them. if not.. they could use his sexuality to smear him and the decision he wrote after the fact.
either way.. it shows blatant disregard for the integrity of the legal system.
the truth is that prop 8.. as you agree… was bad law and bad law needs to be overturned regardless of the political or sexual orientation of the ruling judge…
unfortunately.. at this point in our history.. we can’t count on that kind of intellectual integrity that this judge displayed if/when this hits the supreme court:(