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It doesn't automatically touch heterosexuals interests. Joel Send a noteboard - 11/02/2010 12:53:50 PM
But prop 8 seems to be more about heteros than not. Any one of them could have just as much of a conflict of interest, given that their "side" is trying to refuse something that (imo) should be considered a right. Who's to say a hetero judge would make any better (more just or balanced) of a call if he/she firmly believes that homosexual marriage is Wrong?

If he's a good judge, it shouldn't matter either way.

Some of them may think it does, but it's not a given that all of them do. The outcome of this case has a direct bearing on the liberty of the judge hearing it, and that seems like a conflict of interest to me, not potentially, but certainly. There's a reason judges have the ability to recuse themselves, after all; I don't really think he'd interject deliberate bias, but I can't see how anyone could be completely objective about something that so directly bears on their own life. Hence the point others have raised: No matter what he decides the losing side will allege bias, taking it from "probable appeal" to "mortal lock. "
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