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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Judge Walker Using Video of Prop 8 Trial

Maura Dolan's Los Angles Times article is headlined with biased language, including "gay marriage foes" and "gay marriage ban".
The federal judge who presided over the Proposition 8 trial is under fire from Christian conservatives for showing a three-minute videotape of the trial on the lecture circuit.
Only Christian conservatives? It wasn't just Christian conservatives who voted for Proposition 8.
The sponsors of the 2008 ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage have asked a federal appeals court to order retired Judge Vaughn R. Walker, who ruled against Proposition 8, to return the videotape so it can be put under lock and key. Andrew Pugno, a lawyer for the Proposition 8 campaign, said Walker's use of the video segment in lectures "violates every rule and every court order on the books."
Rules, laws, morals, principles, and everything else must take a back seat to the cause of neutering marriage.
"The trial recordings were not the personal property of Judge Walker, for him to use as he pleased," attorney Charles Cooper told the court. "He had access to them only by virtue of his role as the judicial officer presiding in this case."
True. You try taking property without permission from your employer and using it for personal use. In case you haven't heard, I've moved my namesake blog. Currently, you can read about "transgendered" prisoners in California and a request for taxpayer funds to be spent on "reassignment" surgeries.

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