US Judge Selects Work based on Clients Race

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Yes. He recounts that he marries two black people regularly.

I believe that people should be able to recuse themselves for any reason whatsoever, unless they are doing it to avoid work. Personally I think inter-racial marriage is fine, but I'm not that offended that somebody doesn't agree. I think marrying people with whom you have the most in common is sensible, but I also see the benefits of marrying someone totally different.

Should ministers be forced to marry two people of the same gender if the State allows it? What some of you are suggesting is that they should have no basis to deny the action. Give people freedom of conscience, you thought police.

Ministers should be able to recuse themselves, but then again they don't judge criminal trials as well yes? And aren't public officials.

[ICantSpellDawg]

Ministers should be able to recuse themselves, but then again they don't judge criminal trials as well yes? And aren't public officials.

I don't recall anyone accusing him of giving unfair judicial treatment to people based on race or refusing to hear cases between a white and a black man.

What is the difference between him recusing himself and a Priest recusing themselves for the performance of a marriage? They both have state licenses to perform marriages and recuse themselves in that capacity, right? I recognize that there is a distinction and that he can't deny them the ability to marry, but he should be able to direct them elsewhere.

Essentially what you are sayign is that those who work as public officials do not have freedom of conscience.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

So this guy wasn't acting as a public official? I don't recall anyone accusing him of giving unfair judicial treatment to people based on race or refusing to hear cases between a white and a black man.

What is the difference between him recusing himself and a Priest recusing themselves for the performance of a marriage? They both have state licenses to perform marriages and recuse themselves in that capacity, right?

What's the difference between the president cheating on his wife and a regular man cheating on his wife? Public officials should be held to a higher standard. The state license is not the issue, it's his profession.

If someone won't perform an interracial marriage then the shouldn't judge an interracial court case. Whether or not you recall anyone accusing him of unfairness is inconsequential. That would require those instances to be publicly available, for you to have read them, and for you to remember them

And judges can make terrible decisions, like the guy who sentenced a 16 year old girl to life in prison for killing the man who raped her at 13 and worked her as a prostitute for 3 years (recent case). What if that judge made the decision out of racial prejudice?

Essentially what you are sayign is that those who work as public officials do not have freedom of conscience.

I don't object to him recusing himself, but rather to him judging court cases.