For crying out loud, Tennessee judge throws a temper tantrum.

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COMMENTS: 
*  Whoa. These fundies are getting weirder. It's time to think of mental institutions fgir them rather than jail.
*  No, we do not use other people's lives to make our own personal statements. This is judicial misconduct, plain and simple.
*  Behold! The childishness of conservatives.
*  It's starting to really look as if religion is nothing but a disease. These people can't get a grip! They are under the spell. No matter what their religion teaches them about love and tolerance, they twist the lesson to mean something else. I would feel sorry for them, except they are impacting other people's lives now. Where are the moderate Christians to reel in these radical Christians, the way they're always claiming moderate Muslims should control radical Muslims?
*  It's a Southern State, they have their own Rules
*  Isn't it always the right wingers that whine about activist judges?......Where are they now?
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Tennesee Judge Trying to Flex on Supreme Court and Gay Marriage With 'Limp Wrist' Ruling
By Christopher Spata, September 4, 2015

A state judge in Tennessee is trying to flex on the U.S. Supreme Court by refusing to grant a divorce to a straight couple, basically, it seems, because he's mad about gay marriage. 

Judge Jeffrey Atherton dismissed a case by Pamela E. Bumgardner against Thomas A. Bumgardner because, he said, the Supreme Court's ruling that gay marriage must be allowed everywhere  "preempted state courts from addressing marriage/divorce litigation altogether."

"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," Altherton said, according to Chattanoogan.com.

So, according to Altherton's logic, he can't even rule on a divorce without the highest court in our country weighing in on it.

Altherton also said in his opinion that the Supreme Court's way of doing things these days, "with its iron fist and limp wrist," is making things hard on state-level courts.

Man, we all disagree with our bosses sometimes, but casually tossing out the gay slur in an official court opinion seems a little bit like someone's throwing a temper tantrum.
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