A Mississippi judge opines that, rather than passing a law like one in California that allows gays the right to file wrongful death suits regarding their partners, “gays and lesbians should be put in some type of mental institution.”
He’s now confused why gay rights groups are concerned whether he would be able render a fair judgment on the bench.
“I wish somebody that’s been offended would come up and let me show them what I think of them, the individual. I have no feelings against them,” Wilkerson said. “I don’t ask a fellow if they’re a homosexual or a lady if she’s a lesbian when they come in front of me. That has nothing to do with my judging.”
Unless, of course, the case has something to do with a homosexual, one would assume, or if it comes out during testimony. Could a gay person actually get a fair hearing in this gent’s courtroom? Would his or her testimony be automatically discredited if he or she were “found out”?
After all, according to his letter, gays should should look for help with their “disease” in the Bible — where, in the passages he cites (Romans 1:31-32), it notes that those who break God’s laws, and those who approve of them, are “worthy of death.”
And there is, of course, the little matter of the Mississippi Code of Judicial Conduct, which says judges should avoid “expressions of bias or prejudice.”
Guess who has my vote as to needing some time in a mental institution in this scenario.
(Via Doyce, who makes some fine observations of his own.)