Tennessee Judge throws hissy fit...

[Chuppathingy]

Won't grant a divorce because of gay marriage.

www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/04/tenn-judge-refuses-to-grant-straight-couple-a-divorce-because-of-gay-marriage/?postshare=231441374693820

[NewOrleans]

I came in ready to laugh but then I read it and it's actually disturbing how unhinged he is. His tunnel vision on Obergefell is off the rails.  “The Tennessee Court of Appeals has noted that Obergefell v. Hodges … affected what is, and must be recognized as, a lawful marriage in the State of Tennessee,” Atherton began. “This leaves a mere trial level Tennessee state court judge in a bit of a quandary. 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.”


also, he appears to be using a gay slur to describe what he views as fallout of judicial activism: "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..."