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Related: About this forumRight Wing Says Judge Is a Lesbian, Should Be Off Marriage Case
Antigay activists are once again claiming that a gay judge is incapable of ruling in a case about same-sex marriage.
The so-called Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, a group led by Peter LaBarbera and labeled as a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center, is shouting warnings that judge Sophia Hall is a lesbian and claiming that means she should recuse herself in the case. The Cook County circuit court judge is handling a challenge to the constitutionality of state laws that define marriage as between one man and one woman.
Civil unions became legal in Illinois in 2011. But a list of 25 couples filed two lawsuits in May via Lambda Legal and the American Civil Liberties Union arguing that the marriage ban violates equal protection and due process. The suits have since been combined.
Among Hall's first decisions in the case was on who exactly will defend the 16-year-old ban. The state's attorney general and state attorney had refused, saying the law violated the constitution. And so Hall granted a request from the Thomas More Society, a Catholic legal group, to let two Illinois county clerks mount a defense of the law.
http://www.advocate.com/politics/marriage-equality/2012/07/24/right-wing-wants-judge-booted-marriage-case-because-she
Stupid is as stupid does.
longship
(40,416 posts)My take is that she won't recuse herself. It's a ridiculous claim anyway.
R&K
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)first time i heard of this case. thanks for posting and please post more about this in the future.
Warpy
(111,417 posts)The right wing needs to see where this bullshit is going.
kcass1954
(1,819 posts)MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)IF same-sex marriage is so damaging to the heterosexuals, then how can a heterosexual be expected to rule impartially?
shraby
(21,946 posts)marriages and divorces of traditional marriages?