Posted on 04/21/2020 12:26:12 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A Texas judge said she was forced to remove a rainbow pride flag displayed in her courtroom after a local defense attorney filed a complaint with the State Commission on Judicial Conduct.
Judge Rosie Speedlin Gonzalez, an out lesbian, said the agency, which investigates allegations of judicial misconduct, mandated that she also remove a pen, eyeglasses and a mouse pad with rainbow patterns, along with a sarape, a colorful traditional Mexican cloth.
“It felt like they were trying to shame me and bully me into not expressing who I truly am,” Gonzalez, who presides over Bexar County Court 13 in San Antonio, said. “It felt like a kick in the gut.”
The State Commission on Judicial Conduct told NBC News it could neither confirm nor deny anything related to the issue, citing “strict confidentiality rules.”
Flavio Hernandez, who confirmed he filed the complaints against Gonzalez with both the Bexar County Court and the state commission in August, said he was “grieved” when “confronted by a rainbow flag prominently displayed” in her courtroom and could not “in good conscience” submit himself or his clients “to the implied authority of this unofficial flag symbolizing the Judge’s personal bias.”
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Homosexual acts should have remained illegal everywhere.
Should have removed the judge.
You are who you are. What you CHOOSE to PARTICIPATE in doing defines you.
A judge’s bench is not an office cubicle where you can showcase your Troll collection and pictures of your cats.
Good.
“But when I do it - it’s different!”
What? No Mexico Flag either?
I would flat out refuse to have a case heard in this dyke’s courtroom.
How many things had to go wrong for us to get to this point?
Doesn’t she have a private chambers where she can celebrate her perversity?
The courtroom is about The Law, not any individual judge.
It’s not to be decorated as you’d do your bedroom walls or refrigerator.
Too much identity symbols may indicate a particular bias to other people. A judge should already know that. She probably could have had all the other colorful items still present, had it not been for that Gay Flag. Not appropriate.
Agree about the flag, think the pen and mouse pad business may be over the top
“ Speedlin Gonzalez”
Really?
A judge with the last name “Speedlin Gonzalez”! You just can’t make this stuff up...
Maybe she’d like to wear a rainbow poncho instead of a black robe, too.
She’s not there to be herself, she’s there to be an agent of the law of our land.
Every single case she’s decided should be reviewed.
Which Republicans were asleep at the switch when she was slipped into a judgship?
Seems its parents had a sense of humor.
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