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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Homo Straight Up
Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:58 AM
So (as Matt mentioned in GMN) it turns out that the federal judge overseeing the Prop 8 trial in San Francisco is... gay. The haters at NOM aren't happy because as everyone knows only straight people can be impartial when it comes to issues like gay marriage because straight people are scrupulously fair at all times, of course, and if we've learned anything from the Prop 8 trial so far, geez, it's that no straight person has ever harbored an irrational, anti-gay bias.
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The article also mentions that several years ago he ruled against the gay Olympics and took quite a lot of flack on it from the press. Being gay doesn't mean you always side with gay people and he has already proved that. If they try to overturn the ruling on those grounds, they will just prove that they are bigots, which is exactly what the case is about...
@Reymont: Just to humor you: Being gay in this situation is kind of like being a bicycle rider. See, the only time I've ever given a statement to the police was in a traffic accident, and I thought the bicyclist was at fault and I said so. They'd violated the crosswalk laws, (for a veteran in a wheelchair no less.)
@Reymont: Just to humor you: Being gay in this situation is kind of like being a bicycle rider. See, the only time I've ever given a statement to the police was in a traffic accident, and I thought the bicyclist was at fault and I said so. They'd violated the crosswalk laws, (for a veteran in a wheelchair no less.)
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