<p><img src="http://www.onenewsnow.com/uploadedImages/Matt_Barber.jpg" border="0" alt="Matt Barber" title="Matt Barber" hspace="3" vspace="3" width="94" height="127" align="left" />Proposition 8 is an amendment to California's State Constitution. It was passed by a comfortable margin via ballot initiative in 2008. Prop. 8 maintained the age-old definition of marriage in The Golden State as requiring binary male-female compatibility. It remains tied-up in federal court today.<br /> <br /> Back in February of 2010 it became rumored that retired Federal Judge Vaughn Walker -- who presided over the case at the District level -- was a practitioner of the homosexual lifestyle. It was further reported that he had a longtime male lover. Judge Walker refused to confirm or deny the rumors. At the time I was one of the few people to <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=901170" title="publicly call">publicly call</a> for his recusal. It's inexplicable that attorneys defending Prop. 8 didn't make such a motion.   <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=1330468">MORE &gt;&gt;</a></p>