SF Questions Judge's Impartiality In Gay Marriage Case [View All]

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A lawyer for the City of San Francisco has sounded an alarm that a decision by the judge in the suit challenging the state's ban on same-sex marriage could impair its ability to appeal.

Legal arguments in the case wrapped up last Thursday, (story) but San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer has asked to see additional written arguments by January 14th. But, Kramer has told the city it cannot include arguments countering the assertions made by conservative groups opposing same-sex marriage that gays can be cured and that children are better off with opposite-sex parents.

Among the documents submitted by the Alliance Defense Fund are statements by Princeton University psychiatrist Jeffrey Satinover that gays misled the American Psychiatric Association into removing homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in 1973. Satinover regularly promotes so-called reparative or aversion therapy' for gays.