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Originally Posted by hannukah harry
and how would an evangelical christian judge who thinks that anyone who isn't also an evangelical christian is a sinner and going to hell any different than your examples above?
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Because under your example, an evangelical Christian is making a decision on secular law. It'd be no different than a Christian appearing as a litigant or a defendant before a Jewish judge or an atheist. Fairness on ruling on the law has nothing to do with the person's religious persuasion. If that judge were asked to make a ruling on the state of the soul of the non-Christian, then there'd be a problem.
I've thought about this, and I'm giving Delay's attorneys some credit here for knowing what the law is on recusals in Texas. You really don't want to shoot that gun unless you know it has some bullets in it; the remaining time in a case when you start out saying the judge can't be fair could be most unpleasant.