Whoever even heard of anything embroidered on judicial robes? My guess: this legal hack wants to go far in state politics and is doing this shit just to get the free press and the Fundie fanbase needed to get elected. It has “publicity stunt” written all over it- I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the attorney who filed a grievance isn’t working in cahoots with Mullah McKathan of the Talabama, and the sad part is it’ll probably work.
How long before some Fundie judge finally goes off the deep end and has somebody beheaded in the courtroom for blasphemy and calls it a day? Fuckers.
I doubt that it’s illegal for the judge to have something embroidered on his robes, even the Ten Commandments, since the judge probably pays for his own robes. But it’s unseemly. What’s next? Pictures of the judge’s grandchildren? A swoosh ® ? Judges have their own rules about attire for participants in a trial, lawyers, juries and even spectators. If there aren’t any rules about decorum with respect to a judge’s attire, maybe there should be.
When I was three, I had right and left sewn into my wooly gloves, so I could learn right from left . Is this judge so dim-witted that he can’t remember the difference between right from wrong* without a kindergarden primer?
Yes, I realise that the 10 Cs aren’t laws, but what the heck
I actually find this more troubling than the Judge Moore situtation. This is **inside **the courtroom, as if the judge recited them before every case. I wonder what the legal aspects of it are, though. What if he wore a big, visible crucifix? Would that be significanly different?
I think it’s different than a crucifix. He’s wearing on his official robe- a robe which is used specifically to identify him as an agent of the government acting in an official capacity- actual words which say “Thou Shalt have no other Gods before me…Thou shalt make no graven images…” etc.
They are, quite literally, commandments about who and how to worship. I couldn’t think of a more obvious example of Establishment if I tried.
A crucifix wouldn’t bother me, by the way. It’s a little obnoxious if it’s excessively ostentatious and designed to provoke a reaction but I wouldn’t pick that hill to die on.
700 Club and many other programs are on TV and radio which I find offensive, so I don’t watch or listen to them. Someone with an ass the size of Baltimore in lavender stretch pants is offensive to me, so I don’t look.
Change the channel, shut it off, avert your gaze-it’s all the same. I don’t give a fat rat’s ass if a judge wears the 10 commandments or the lyrics to the Hokey Pokey on his robes.
