In keeping with the thread on Ted Olsen totally destroying Chris Wallace on FAUX Entertainment, today’s Asshats of the Day are Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council (DE has their own chapter of these group – Elaine Benes, I mean, Christine O’Donnell is a member), and the American Family Foundation. FRC (or is the FURCK) and AFA are notoriously anti-gay organizations, all in the name of saving our White, Christian nation. Both Perkins and the AFA have said that Judge Vaughn Walker should have recused himself because he is gay. According to Huffington Post, Walker has never spoken openly about being gay.
Perkins was on Face the Nation Sunday and said “I think what you have is one judge who thinks he knows — and a district level judge and an openly homosexual judge at that — who says he knows better than not only 7 million voters in the state of California but voters in 30 states across the nation that have passed marriage amendments. This is far from over. Had this guy been … an evangelical preacher in his past there would have been cries for him to step down from this case,” he added. “So I do think [his homosexuality] has a bearing on the case. But this is not without precedent.” Um, Tony, that’s why we have an independent court system, to interpret the law. And this judge, appointed by your hero Ronnie Reagan, weighed the testimony and evidence and issued his ruling. And judges have overturned referenda before. That’s they way it goes and there’s your precedent.
And the AFA claims that Walker’s “sexual proclivity” disqualified him from hearing the case.
I really wonder what these asshats would be saying right now if Walker had upheld Prop 8? Do you think they would have been praising the brave homosexual judge who turned his back on his own kind?
Asshats – they’re becoming a dime a dozen.