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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<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

He’s now confused why gay rights groups are concerned whether he would be able render a fair judgment on the bench.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

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”?<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

Guess who has my vote as to needing some time in a mental institution in this scenario.<\/p>\n

(Via Doyce<\/a>, who makes some fine observations of his own.)<\/small> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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