{"id":3567,"date":"2010-08-06T18:06:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T22:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=3567"},"modified":"2010-08-06T18:06:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T22:06:20","slug":"walker-gay-marriage-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/08\/06\/walker-gay-marriage-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Walker’s Critics — Divorced From Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"

The gay-bashers are at it again, freaking out at Judge Vaughn Walker’s pro-gay marriage Proposition 8 decision in Perry v. Schwarzenegger.<\/a> The attacks claim<\/a>, among other things, that: <\/p>\n

\nThe ruling is a travesty of justice because Walker himself is reportedly gay – and because he’s gay, he should’ve removed himself from the case!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Boy, am I glad I never parlayed my law degree into a judgeship. Because, based on this “reasoning,” I would have been duty-bound to recuse myself from any case involving women, Jews, short people, straights, New Yorkers, satirists, versifiers, lawyers, oboe players, agnostics, and people older than … uh … never mind.<\/p>\n

That brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n

Judge Walker’s Critics — Divorced From Reason
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Judge Walker’s well-reasoned decision
\nHas been met with gay-bashing derision:
\nHe’s “reportedly gay,”
\nSo was biased their way.<\/em>
\nOh, just straight guys have unbiased vision?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The gay-bashers are at it again, freaking out at Judge Vaughn Walker’s pro-gay marriage Proposition 8 decision in Perry v. Schwarzenegger. The attacks claim, among other things, that: The ruling is a travesty of justice because Walker himself is reportedly gay – and because he’s gay, he should’ve removed himself from the case! Boy, am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1163,25,640,2,168,6,88],"tags":[1376,642,1377,1226,1375,1254,1374,1378],"class_list":["post-3567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california-satire","category-constitution-humor","category-gay-rights","category-law","category-legal-limericks","category-political-limericks","category-social-satire","tag-bias-humor","tag-gay-marriage","tag-judge-vaughn-walker","tag-judiciary-humor","tag-legal-satire","tag-litigation-humor","tag-perry-v-schwarzenegger","tag-proposition-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3581,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions\/3581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}