The article sort of pretends it isn't making an issue of his sexuality by including references to the other judges' wives and children too.
I think that not only that judges' sexuality is irrelevant, but references to partners, wives, husbands and children is a serious invasion of their privacy.
However what really concerns me about this article is the assertion that judges are 'activist' and not politically impartial in making their judgements, and that their allegiance is to a 'metropolitan elite'.
That contradicts the whole basis of our political system - which is that parliament makes the laws, and that the judiciary interprets those laws passed by our elected politicians in an unbiased way.
Since the Referendum the ideal of parliamentary democracy seems to be giving way to mob rule. A dangerous road, IMHO.