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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyJanuary 6th, 2016
Last year Mr. and Mrs. Bumgardner decided that they just weren’t all into the marriage thing anymore and decided to call it quits. Unfortunately for them, their divorce was assigned to Judge Jeffrey Atherton of Chattanooga.
Judge Atherton was really quite upset that the US Supreme Court had ruled that gay people have all the same rights as other people and threw a little fit. If gay people could get married then, well, he’s show them. He’d write a petulant and whiny little ruling taking it out on the Bumgardners.
Although this Court has some vague familiarity with the governmental theories of democracy, republicanism, socialism, fascism, theocracy, and even despotism, implantation of this apparently new “super-federal-judicial” form of benign and benevolent government, termed “kryptocracy” by some and “judi-idiocracy” by others, with its iron fist and limp wrist, represents quite a challenge for a state level trial court. In any event, it should be noted that the victory of personal rights and liberty over the intrusion of state government provided by the majority opinion in Obergefell is held by this Court to have divested subject matter jurisdiction from this Court when a divorce is contested. Individuals, at least according to the majority opinion, are apparently authorized (along with the federal judiciary) to define when a marriage begins and, accordingly, ends, (without the pesky intervention/intrusion of a state court) leaving irreconcilable divorces under Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-101 (11), Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-103, and perhaps even Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-129 to some degree (but only when the grounds and/or irreconcilable differences are stipulated), intact and within the jurisdiction of this Court to address.
Nah nah nah nah nah! Go ask the limp-wristed Supreme Court to divorce you!
Yeah… no.
Judge Atherton (you homophobic bigot), you can consider yourself publicly reprimanded.
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MattNYC
January 7th, 2016
Timothy, this is all well and good, but does it have any impact on him? I doubt he gives a sh*t about this nor would anyone else around him. I bet his buddies at the Country Club probably razzed him quite a bit over cocktails.
I would have liked to have seen a suspension or removal for dereliction of duty… But i guess that would be expecting too much.
Timothy Kincaid
January 7th, 2016
I agree Matt that this is toothless. But it might impede advancement. Or so I hope.
Paul Douglas
January 7th, 2016
Oh,I’m sure if Jeb or Ted get elected in November Atherton would be there go to candidate to replace RBG. If that clown Moore from Alabama isn’t available…. .
Ben in oakland
January 8th, 2016
OMG!
Someone imagines that he died and came back as Scalia’s wet dream–
But without the funnies.
Lucrece
January 9th, 2016
Reprimanded by a disciplinary council, yet still able to keep the title “The Honorable”. Heh.
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