Santorum Accuses Gay Federal Judge of "Rigging" Trial.

Rick Santorum, JD, is unhappy with the progress of Perry v. Schwarzenegger. He is particularly displeased with Judge Vaughn Walker, who was recently outed.

Among Santorum's grievances:

He decided that Prop 8 proponents should be subjected to questioning about their personal beliefs on marriage and sexuality.

He ordered Prop 8 proponents to disclose private communications about never-used campaign messages.

He directed the Prop 8 campaign to turn over copies of all internal records and e-mail messages on campaign strategy.

He refused not only to demand any of these things of the proposition's opponents, but also to so much as rule on a motion related to that issue.

He subjected one proponent to humiliation for his concerns about homosexuality, as written in private e-mails to friends - in Chinese.

And so on. Santorum doesn't believe the trial should even take place and casually makes an extraordinary allegation:

The only point of Walker's rigged trial is to convince appellate courts that voters who passed Proposition 8 are intolerant bigots.

It's not every day that a former Senator accuses a Reagan and Bush-nominated federal judge of "rigging" a trial.