“With the U.S. Supreme Court having defined what must be recognized as a marriage, it would appear that Tennessee’s judiciary must now await the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court as to what is not a marriage, or better stated, when a marriage is no longer a marriage,” Atherton wrote in his decision.If following Supreme Court precedent is too much of a "challenge" for you, resign.
“The majority’s opinion in Obergefell, regardless of its patronizing and condescending verbiage, is now the law of the land, accurately described by Justice Scalia as ‘a naked claim to legislative — indeed, super-legislative — power.'”
“The conclusion reached by this Court is that Tennesseans have been deemed by the U.S. Supreme Court to be incompetent to define and address such keystone/central institutions such as marriage, and, thereby, at minimum, contested divorces… [A]ccording to Justice Scalia, the majority opinion in Obergefell represents ‘social transformation without representation.'”
Atherton continued: “Although this Court has some vague familiarity with the government theories of democracy, republicanism, socialism, communism, fascism, theocracy, and even despotism, implementation of this apparently new ‘super-federal-judicial’ form of benign and benevolent government, termed ‘krytocracy’ by some and ‘judi-idiocracy’ by others, with its iron fist and limp wrist, represents quite a challenge for a state level trial court.”
How would you like to be the couple who spent their time and money litigating over divorce only to find their judge grandstanding and bullshitting like this?
As for "iron fist and limp wrist" — interesting that the judge didn't edit out the phrase that is certain to be read as homophobic. Obviously, there's room to deny that "limp wrist" referred to gay people in that sentence. It's a description of the government, and the government doesn't have a sexual orientation. But it's like complaining about what the government is doing about race and then calling the government "watermelon-eating."
As for "krytocracy," it's not in my dictionary, and Googling it, I see it had some currency back in 2005, in the context of the Terri Schiavo case.
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"Farmer, it's unpleasant to tell you this to your face, but homosexuality is a disease."
That's a peculiar definition of saying something to my face ;)
J. Farmer:
The current generation will maintain their view on marriage. The next generation, indoctrinated as captives of the public education system and the entertainment media that cant even contemplate depicting a homosexual as anything other than Quirky And Fabulous, isnt going to be the same. In fact, I suspect that parents trying to undo their childrens' indoctrination on this subject will tear a tremendous number of families apart, even if no one involved is homosexual themselves.
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