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Judge being gay a nonissue during Prop. 8 trial
SF Gate.com, ^ | 8/4/10 | Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross

Posted on 08/04/2010 6:09:03 PM PDT by Nachum

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.

Many gay politicians in San Francisco and lawyers who have had dealings with Walker say the 65-year-old jurist, appointed to the bench by President George H.W. Bush in 1989, has never taken pains to disguise - or advertise - his orientation.

(Excerpt) Read more at articles.sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gay; judge; nonissue; trial
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1 posted on 08/04/2010 6:09:07 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25Qhbdijv5Y&feature=related


2 posted on 08/04/2010 6:09:37 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Riiiiiight.


3 posted on 08/04/2010 6:09:37 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Nachum

Hello Frisco!!


4 posted on 08/04/2010 6:09:57 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: dead

San Frisky.


5 posted on 08/04/2010 6:11:57 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: Nachum

Outrageous. Should’ve recused himself. Seems like it should be overturned on that basis alone.


6 posted on 08/04/2010 6:12:18 PM PDT by LibWhacker (America awake!)
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To: Nachum

Sure it was a non-issue /s

I’ll support anyone who wants to build a mosque anywhere in California...as many as they’d like.


7 posted on 08/04/2010 6:14:55 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: Nachum

Finding an impartial judge could be difficult, have
any goats passed the bar?


8 posted on 08/04/2010 6:15:20 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Nachum
Another gift from New World Order Bush.
9 posted on 08/04/2010 6:15:46 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Nachum

If it’s a “nonissue”, why don’t we let convicted murderers try homicide cases?


10 posted on 08/04/2010 6:18:29 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The United States of America! aka The Big Piñata. Bash it and the goodies fall out.)
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To: Nachum

Yeah, the homo judge was just following the law when he cavalierly dismissed the votes of millions of Californians.
Yeah, he’s not a lying sack of shit.


11 posted on 08/04/2010 6:20:39 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: hinckley buzzard

the same compassionate conservative who appointed David Souter to the bench.


12 posted on 08/04/2010 6:20:47 PM PDT by heye2monn
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To: Nachum
So the Honorable Judge should have recused himself, having been so wound up in the outcome. But what do we expect of such self-serving shit-bag liars as have invaded the public space. Utter pestilence.
13 posted on 08/04/2010 6:22:41 PM PDT by GregoryFul
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To: Nachum

It would have been a non-issue in a case concerning
sea lions in the children’s pool in La Jolla. This
case concerned whether gays can marry. A gay
judge has an axe to grind on the subject. His
opinion has little to do with the law. It was
entirely leveraged on his visceral concern about
“superiority”. That’s going to get slapped down
like annoying mosquito on appeal.


14 posted on 08/04/2010 6:23:26 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Nachum
Read the article.

B. S.

Would the various commentators who consider his gayness an interesting but essentially irrelevant fact feel the same way if the judge was say, a deacon in the Church of Latter Day Saints with the same judging record?

Nope, I didn't think so.

15 posted on 08/04/2010 6:24:31 PM PDT by Captain Rhino (“Si vis pacem, para bellum” - if you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Nachum

Ya think Rush or Hannity will touch this one? Naaa.


16 posted on 08/04/2010 6:26:13 PM PDT by stevio (Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
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To: Myrddin

A sexual degenerate judge has a degenerate mind. But what would we expect from the left coast?


17 posted on 08/04/2010 6:26:44 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Dem voters, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when deceived.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Judge Walker is an outstanding judge, one of the best I have been before. He is highly intelligent, thoughtful, pragmatic and civil to parties and counsel. You could not ask for a better judge. Ignorant speculation about his motives and ideological leanings ignores the fact that the state failed to produce any real evidence or argument to establish a rational basis for the law other than the “wlll of the people.” The state got out lawyered at nearly every turn.


18 posted on 08/04/2010 6:27:00 PM PDT by DryFly
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To: Nachum

Well, sure it’s a non-issue.

It wouldn’t matter if a pedophile judge was ruling on a child pornography case would it?


19 posted on 08/04/2010 6:27:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin (Will must be the harder, courage the bolder, spirit must be the more, as our might lessens.)
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To: Nachum
The Bushes were totally coming from a different plane of reality.

They did not hate the Federal government, and never met an apparatchik they didn't like.

They let the marxists and sex perverts within gain a formidable presence.

The culling that is coming will be met with much resistance, but it is imperative that the culling be done, or the Republic will fall.

20 posted on 08/04/2010 6:27:14 PM PDT by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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