Gay judge's same-sex marriage ruling upheld

[Dgov]

Well good.  The ruling itself wasn't bad, but there was probably a legitimate conflict of interests case here, so better to fix it up nicely.

[Dgov]

Well good.  The ruling itself wasn't bad, but there was probably a legitimate conflict of interests case here, so better to fix it up nicely.

The whole conflict of interest argument was absurd from the get go unless you believe that women shouldn't be able to rule on cases impacting women, minorities on minorities, and unless you believe the only impartial Judge in some cases could be a heterosexual white male....

No, i'm talking about the not being open about it.  Its something that he probably should have disclosed a bit sooner, even if it doesn't mean anything in the end.

[Dgov]

No whether or not he was gay, or whether or not he was open or not has no barring on the case.  Only bigots who have no actual argument care about petty ish like that.

Well, take it to the other logical extreme.  Would you let a KKK member decide a lynching case in Mississippi?  Whether or not it affected his decision (and it almost certainly didn't, this is California after all), its still something that should have been made very clear immediately, and if the judge was smart he probably should have excused himself from the case, just to deny Prop 8's supporters that very argument.

It's not like the Pro-Prop 8 people would be silent if a straight judge ruled it unconstitutional.  It would have been easy to just pass it off to a less controversial judge who could give the same ruling without any hint of a conflict of interest.  Coulda/woulda/shoulda I Guess.  Now we get weeks of boring legal news stories dragging the issue out.