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Out But Not An Issue: Judge In Prop 8 Trial Is Gay
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Feb 08, 2010 04:49am |
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| Author | Erin Geiger Smith |
| News Date | Sunday, February 7, 2010 08:05:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | It was apparently the most open secret of the Prop 8 trial in San Francisco.
The presiding judge, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, is gay.
The San Francisco Chronicle's SFGate has the full report, and the article cites many sources who say they do not expect his sexual orientation to influence his opinion.
Walker was appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1989 and has never "taken paints to disguise -- or advertise -- his orientation," the article said.
The judge in this landmark gay rights litigation being gay is quite ironic, but it isn't the first eye-brow raising trial Walker has been involved in. |
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