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What’s that famous quote by William Shakespeare? Umm…oh yes. “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” That’s the one. It fits the following scenario perfectly.

Un–frigging—believable. We wake up this morning and check our email which revealed to us a slew of posts across the LGBT blogosphere with these ridiculous headlines about how it doesn’t matter that Prop 8 trial judge Vaughn Walker is gay.  Are these people on drugs? Of course it matters!

If it didn’t matter then why the hell is the LGBT blogging community tripping over each other to write a post about Judge Walker being outed by the San Francisco Chronicle this weekend—–then only to breathlessly follow that up with the disclaimer in the title of their posts—–But, well, you know,  it doesn’t matter. BULLSHIT.  And these jive bloggers know it.   Oh hell to the yes—- it most certainly does matters.

Ask the defenses lead counsel Andrew Pugno on the down-low.  He’ll be more than willing to tell you just how much it matters.

Just like a black judge would have mattered to blacks in waiting for a ruling to be handed down in previous groundbreaking Supreme Court cases that heavily impacted African Americans. It most certainly would’ve in the Loving vs. Virginia case had it been the court of a lone African American judge. And don’t get us wrong—we’re not saying that a black judge would’ve been unable to remain impartial in his profession duties while presiding over a trial impacting the civil rights of blacks. And we’re not saying that Judge Walker is unable to do that, either in a trial impacting the civil rights of the LGBT community. But this ridiculous blabbering that it doesn’t matter is yet again the LGBT blogger community trying to pretend not to know and looking like morons in the hopeless transparency of it all.

It’s like a bad Spike Lee movie these LGBT bloggers act like at times. There’s really no need for this kind of posturing or silliness. It’s embarrassing.

Of course it eefing matters that the goddamn judge is a fag.

Even if only for the psychological impact and high of knowing there is a gay judge who  presided over the trial and is making the ultimate decision on this case—it matters.  And on the opposite end of that spectrum in terms of the defense——-they’ve already revealed in so many words just how much it matters.  Andrew Pugno had this much to say about it in a quote from the SF Chronicle piece:

“In many ways, the sponsors of Prop. 8 have been put at significant disadvantage throughout the case,” Pugno said. “Regardless of the reason for it.”

If we were Pugno we’d be worried, too.

Related post: SF Chron Says Prop 8 Judge Vaughn Walker Is Gay

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