# Prop 8 trial update: Walker's ruling upheld **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 14, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prop-8-trial-update-walkers-ruling-upheld/585500 "2011-06-14T22:31:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 108
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prop-8-trial-update-walkers-ruling-upheld/585500/108 "2011-06-16T06:54:32Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > CP, I think you need to go back and read the decision and familiarize yourself **with how laws fundamentally work**. You are a person who has a partial grasp of the subject and tries to stretch that out into an argument. It’s not working, everyone can see it but you, and further arguing is not going to help anyone because you either can’t or refuse to become more knowledgeable in the subject. YogSosoth, your demeaning post does nothing to bolster your claim. As it stands, Walker’s ruling is _not_ the law of the land, nor is it immune from critique. Nor is Walker himself immune. **Dio** and others wanted to conflate the constitutionality of same sex marriage with recusing one’s self, but whatever. Walker’s ruling (and Wane’s) both derive from legal precedent. What posters in this thread have done is try to address that precedent. If you can’t, then scoot. > [@](#): > > Basically, your understanding of the difference between an inherent quality and a chosen one is flawed. No, I don’t think you understand that some people feel that religion is a mental affliction (like **Dio** ) and some find religion to be as natural as a pull as, say, breathing. > [@](#): > > You may understand it if you contrasted the difference on something mundane, like eye color or height vs. occupation, but bring in the subject of gays, religion, and marriage and your understanding falls apart. Except that one’s sexual orientation is not mundane, and it it were such, then I’m going to form a PAC for the Protection of the Rights of Short Blonds Everywhere. > [@](#): > > However, you’ve shown that you’ve got a hell of an axe to grind against gays by referring to them as some medical anomaly that needs to be cured, Cite? * * * Finally, thank you **BigT**. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prop-8-trial-update-walkers-ruling-upheld/585500)._