Posted on 03/13/2019 9:07:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
A Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate is facing an onslaught from radical leftist groups who contend his religious beliefs should disqualify him from serving as a judge.
Brian Hagedorn, who currently sits on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, has been accused of being anti-gay because he helped launch a Christian grade school that requires students, faculty and parents to follow Christian teachings.
The Augustine Academy bars students, parents and teachers from “participating in immoral sexual activity.” The school also defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman.
In other words, the Christian school adheres to orthodox Christian teachings that Christians have been following for more than 2,000 years.
The state chapter of the Human Rights Campaign said Judge Hagedorn’s involvement with the school should disqualify him from the bench, Wisconsin Public Radio reported.
“Judges are tasked with a sacred duty to uphold equal treatment for all people under the law,” said Wendy Strout, state director for the pro-LGBTQ organization. “As someone who has publicly and unabashedly voiced contempt for LGBTQ equality, Brian Hagedorn’s record is disqualifying.”
Judge Hagedorn told the Todd Starnes Radio Show that the attacks by leftist groups are “an effort to silence people and push people out of public life if they are people of faith.”
“If you volunteer at the local parish council or volunteer at the local Catholic school or orthodox Jewish school, Muslim, Mormon school you may not be qualified for public office or participate in public life, according to my opponents,” Hagedorn told me. “That’s a dangerous development, it’s wrong and we need to call that out.”
He blasted critics and rightly accused them of religious intolerance.
“Hopefully, we are going to send a message and say, 'this is wrong,'” he told me. “People of faith can participate in public life. They should not be relegated to the sidelines. It’s okay to be a part of your church. It’s okay to practice your faith and to live it out in your life and still be an excellent judge.”
Unfortunately, a good many leftist groups along with their anti-Christian cronies in the Wisconsin media don’t agree with the judge. And they have piled on by publishing all sorts of fake news stories.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel accused Hagedorn of delivering a speech to an anti-gay legal group. That legal group turned out to be Alliance Defending Freedom, one of the most respected religious liberty law firms in the nation.
Alliance Defending Freedom has argued a number of cases before the Supreme Court, including the high profile Masterpiece Cake Shop case. The Supreme Court sided with the Christian baker in that particular case.
The most scurrilous charge came from the far-left website ThinkProgress. They accused Judge Hagedorn of comparing homosexuality to bestiality in a 2005 blog post he wrote in law school.
He simply paraphrased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent on a case about Texas sodomy laws. And Hagedorn wrote that his argument was from a legal perspective, not a moral perspective. Read the blog posting for yourself.
Regardless, the Human Rights Campaign condemned Hagedorn’s “horrific and outdated comments.”
“Judges are tasked with a sacred duty to uphold equal treatment for all people under the law,” Strout said in a statement. “Hagedorn’s anti-LGBTQ rhetoric is deeply disturbing, and as someone who has publicly and unabashedly voiced contempt for LGBTQ equality he has no place on the bench or in public office. If elected, Wisconsinites could not count on him to uphold their civil rights.”
Joy Pullmann, writing in The Federalist, correctly surmised that leftists are sending a message that Christians cannot be good judges because of their faith.
“These smears against Hagedorn and others like him nominated or running for public office hang a ‘No Christians need apply’ sign on not only public offices but entire professions, such as law, health, and education,” she wrote. “In all of these domains, and more, Christians are increasingly told to check their convictions at the door.”
Judge Hagedorn is just the latest public official who has faced a public inquisition because of his religious beliefs. In recent months, federal nominees have been interrogated over their Catholic dogma and their involvement in the Knights of Columbus.
The Human Rights Campaign wants you to believe their crusade against Judge Hagedorn is about tolerance. In reality, it’s about shoving Christians into the closet.
The left is trying to ban Christianity, one small step at a time.
huge sighs~~ Praying for God’s blessing over this Judge
Freedom of religion is not the same thing as freedom from religion.
Article VI, Clause 3? The First Amendment certainly does.
Enough of an argument can be made to hang an average jury
Christians have been kicked out of one institution after another. Public schools, colleges, high level officers in corporate America, Hollywood, the democrat party, the liberal media, Anything that ever comes out of your TV.
Please see my tag line.
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Buried deep and never discussed is that Augustine Academy’s students are probably two or three grade levels above the abysmal laughable publik skooolz in that future sh*thole state. (And we know why that adjective is the future of that state.)
This is NOT a small step. They are acting as if atheism is already the state religion.
This is NOT a small step. They are acting as if atheism is already the state religion.
Perhaps they will let us stay and live as long as we pay the jizya.
A bunch of people think they ought to be able to dictate what happens to someone’s career and livelihood because they disagree with them.
Evil.
The “War on Christianity “ is booming!
The American colonial colleges were set up so that they could provide for good preachers. Their mission was later expanded to include good judges. We are talking about Harvard, Yale, Brown, etc.
In order to do this the students were extensively trained in moral philosophy, the study of virtue and vice. This was a Christian venture originating from Aristotle and Aquinas. And we got some of the greatest legal minds as a result.
This current dust-up shows just how far things have fallen.
Atheism is a religion, they just hain’t realized it yet.
>> his religious beliefs should disqualify him from serving as a judge.<<
Did the judge lose his first amendment rights?
This is actually a full throated endorsement of democrap enemy islam, as they wouldn’t dare challenge such a muslim candidate similarly.
Every Democrat craves the brutal destruction of the Christian West. It is the core craving of the Democrat.
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