After retired U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker played a clip of the trial during a talk at the University of Arizona in February, lawyers who defended Proposition 8 requested that all of the tapes from the trial be handed over. Proponents have also asked the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to prevent former Judge Walker from playing the recording for anyone else.
Greg Quinlan, president and founder of the Pro-Family Network, contends that Walker has overstepped his boundaries.
"When two plus two doesn't equal four anymore, you can do anything you want because logic and truth [don't] matter," Quinlan reasons. "We are no longer a nation of laws; we are a nation of lawmakers. And those lawmakers happen to wear black robes and sit in courtrooms."
He says Walker's decision to play a clip from the trial broke the judge's oath and violated a U.S. Supreme Court order.
"I have to speak to this as a former homosexual. This is part of the pathology, the arrogance of the narcissism of homosexuality, because Judge Walker is himself a homosexual and proud to say so," the Pro-Family Network president explains. "So this is the issue that we have here. We have the elitist arrogance of the homosexual political movement who are making...rules as they go along. This is illicit and illegal what he did."
Meanwhile, Walker's spokesman says the former judge is not available to comment on the situation.