NOM says gay Prop 8 judge is biased

[WillParkinson]

NOM says gay Prop 8 judge is biased

We saw it coming.

Not long after the San Francisco Chronicle revealed the “open secret” that Prop 8 trial Judge Vaughn Walker is gay, the National Organization of Marriage freaked out.

In response to the news, they basically called Judge Walker biased and incompetent.

This is nonsense.

If sexual orientation automatically creates a bias within a judge that cannot be overcome, then we literally can’t have any rulings on gay marriage – because either the judge will be gay or bisexual and thus biased, or the judge will be straight, and thus – biased.

Gayness simply doesn’t make someone less able to reason. It doesn’t make someone less objective. It doesn’t make someone more emotional or less logical. Just as no one expects a judge to be automatically recused from an affirmative action case because he’s black or white, so in this case sexual orientation has no bearing on Walker’s judging.

NOM doesn’t understand that someone’s sexual orientation has no bearing on their ability to do their job. But that doesn’t mean the judge is biased. It means NOM is.

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Because, you know, a straight judge will be completely impartial. Bisexuals anyone?

http://www.365gay.com/news/nom-says-gay-prop-8-judge-is-biased/

[mitchtv]

1. You called it

Was that yesterday?