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.
Exactly. The whole idea is that the judge is neutral, not the exemplar of some faction. This gal says, “It felt like they were trying to shame me and bully me into not expressing who I truly am.” What if a Catholic judge wanted to express who he truly is by putting up a crucifix and the Vatican flag in his courtroom? Would this dyke think that was just hunky-dory?