CRWXtian Judges Now Refusing To Hear Abortion Cases

I don't usually get involved with abortion issues. I've enough problems keeping up with gay marriage issues. But today I ran across something that really fried my egg.

It seems the new "thing" for CRWXtian judges is to refuse to hear cases involving abortion. Their stance being, "I can't morally make a ruling on cases that involve the possible death of unborn children."

Why should that annoy me? For the simple reason that a judge's job is to hear cases that involve the laws of our land and to rule on them accordingly. If a 13 year old girl comes before a court to get the courts permission to have an abortion rather than tell her parents about it, the law says she can do that. For a judge to refuse to hear the case means that judge is picking and choosing cases he or she wants to hear and that's not allowed under state and local law.

A judge is supposed to be impartial. Not for or against according to their personal beliefs. They are to make decisions according to the rule of law only. If they can't do this, they don't belong on the bench. Congress needs to pass a law that states a judgs can't continually recluse themselves from hearing a case because of personal beliefs. Such a judge should be removed immediately.

The smell arising from those backing what these judges do tells this story:

"If a judge has such strongly held -- perhaps religiously based -- views on the subject matter of a case that she believes ruling in a particular way would amount to personally participating in a murder, it seems clear that a reasonable, disinterested observer might question her impartiality.

Under those circumstances, a judge who refused to step aside and let an unbiased judge decide the case could see her ruling reversed on appeal, or might even face discipline by the board that oversees judges' behavior."

My opinion is that if a judge has such strongly held religious based views that they can't rule impartially on cases involving national issues like abortion, that judge isn't qualified to be a judge. They need to step down, not step aside. Our court system has no place for judges who can't be impartial. Period! If it's about abortion today, what will it be tomorrow?

Now, if this were a once and done thing, I probably wouldn't be that concerned about it although the very idea of this freaks me out. But 3 other judges from this TN court have pulled the same stunt. And it's happening not only in Tennessee, but also in other southern states and in Pennsylvania as well. The time to put a stop to this is NOW.

It seems America just isn't America any more.

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