Prop 8 backers Judge's partner proves bias

In California, same–sex marriage opponents are against a gay judge and are seeking to throw out a federal judge’s decision to strike down the voter-backed initiative. They are saying that the judge who recently declared that he is a gay had done mistake in taking the case.

Charles Cooper, an attorney for a group supporting Proposition 8, said in a filing today in federal court in San Francisco, that judge who himself is a gay has an interest that could be substantially affected by the result of the case. They said that he should remove himself from the case under federal law.

But Former U. S. District Judge Vaughn Walker did not attempted to remove his name from a 2009 lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of California’s gay marriage ban.

Walker discloses on April 6, that he has been in a 10-year relationship with another man.

He has announced his retirement last year and is now in private practice. He said that he had never thought it like that his sexual orientation is the reason to remove himself from the Proposition 8 case.

He further said that the Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment passed by 52 percent of voters in 2008.