It's Intuitively Obvious

• "Today, a court in San Francisco heard arguments about one of the most contemptible legal claims advanced in decades: that Vaughn Walker, the federal judge who voted last spring to strike down California's ban on gay marriage, was too gay to decide the case fairly." --Dahlia Lithwick, Slate, June 13, 2011

• "Now I am no social scientist, and this argument may be riddled with empirical holes. But it strikes me as intuitively obvious that in order to succeed in a white man's world, women must learn to see both sides in ways that men do not. If that is true, it just might make them "better" judges, at least in some circumstances." --Dahlia Lithwick, Slate, July 13, 2009

Lithwick is right. The attack on Walker is out of order. He's not biased because he's gay, he's biased because he's a white man.