Discussion: Judge Who Said Gay Marriage Prevented Him From Divorcing Couple Reprimanded

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The judge also noted in his order that the Supreme Court had not explicitly allowed him to breathe. At that point he started to hold his breath, turned blue, and eventually fell over sideways.

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They should’ve given him 30 days for smart alecky.

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There indeed is some “judi-idiocracy” at work here – by Jeffrey Atherton.

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Make it dumb alecky. It’s nearer the mark.

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He certainly seems to be a graduate of the Antonin Scalia Famous Judges School and Legal Bumfuckery Emporium.

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When you don’t hang your head and go away but threaten their livelihood instead, they sure get meek.

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"The conclusion reached by this Court is that Tennesseans have been deemed by the U.S. Supreme Court to be incompetent"

He has a point there. But then everybody already knew that. It’s been common knowledge since the days of the Scopes trial and π = 3.

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Please. Pi was Kansas. There’s plenty of stupid to go around.

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Ah, Tennessee. Glad I no longer live in that backwater of a state, so full of dumb wingerbots.

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Great! Now if only someone could reprimand Scalia for his idiotic belief that Government can favor religion over secular beliefs.

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Actually, it was no one. Indiana came closest. But it was ascribed to Tennessee by Robert A. Heinlein in Stranger in a Strange Land and that’s as good a source* as any.

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*Not meant to be a factual statement.

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Silly me. Indiana, Kansas, all those flyover states look the same…

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Regent University School of Law

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  Atherton participated in its investigation into the order and "recognized that the order as written could have been misunderstood as undermining in the independence, integrity and impartiality of the Judiciary."

Gee … ya think ? ? ? —

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What a pathetic excuse for a jurist. He ought to be dis-benched, disbarred, disavowed, and just plain dissed.

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Not really a question of “misunderstanding” though, is it?

Under any sane interpretation, his screechingly politicized decision quite clearly “undermined the independence, integrity and impariality of the Judiciary.”

“Could have been misunderstood as” is utter bullcrap and sounds like he wrote it himself – but perhaps that’s what they meant by “Atherton participated in its investigation.”

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Nope – Asshole knew exactly what he was saying —

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After which, he was promptly fined for littering and blocking a public thoroughfare.