Well, there's no grounds to believe that there is any truth to the allegations; the evidence behind them has been examined and found to be fraudulent, and there's a clear motive for the allegations (getting rid of a left-leaning judge by marshalling public outrage).
It's clear that Kirby didn't screw that particular rent-boy; are you saying that they should dig around in his personal life to see whether there perchance are some others he did screw?
Actually it's less clear than all that. The evidence that Justice Kirby went cruising for boys in a Comcar on that particular night has been discredited. The Statutory Declaration from a gay prostitute has been conveniently forgotten however.
And where do you get the idea that Kirby is 'left-leaning'? He seems fairly center-right to me. Of course maybe you're one of those people who think the Age newspaper and the Democrats are 'left wing'?
Left-leaning compared to the Howard administration's ideologies, and enough so to get in the way. Besides, if he goes, Howard can replace him with a conservative of some sort, stacking the High Court more quickly than mere attrition would allow.
I seem to recall Kirby being a Monarchist actually. People are complex; assuming that one's sexuality indicates a left lean can be quite an error.
He seems to be more of a liberal humanist by far than the government would like.
And I am aware that not all gays are leftists; ever read Andrew Sullivan?
I suspect a lot of male homosexuals are more right-wing than left-wing, the connections between fascism and militarism and homosexuality are well documented. Any why do there seem to be so man lesbian policewomen?
Hmmm.
Ah, but how many gay fascists are out of the closet?
Hmm. I read a piece in Time recently on Holland's radical right-wing anti-immigration political sensation of the moment, it give passing mention that he is gay.
Damn. I was really looking forward to an enquiry. Especially when they started re-examining those claims by former MP Franca Arena that all Judges belonged to a particular Satanic Lodge and fought with axes to determine their leadership. Apparently most of the juciest claims originated with someone in Maximum Security Insanity Prison.
Still, it is a bit odd that no-one is calling for an enquiry. Normally they call for an enquiry if the biscuits at the Parliamentary Tea-Room are broken or the seventeenth secretary to the minister's assistant admits a drink driving offence thirty-eight years ago.