{"id":13069,"date":"2019-02-27T16:48:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T21:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=13069"},"modified":"2019-02-27T16:48:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T21:48:13","slug":"state-supreme-court-justice-attacked-christian-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2019\/02\/state-supreme-court-justice-attacked-christian-faith","title":{"rendered":"State Supreme Court Justice Being Attacked For His Christian Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some believe his Christian faith bars him from impartial service.<\/em><\/p>\n

There are only a few weeks left until Wisconsin\u2019s Supreme Court race is over. Candidate Brian Hagedorn, who right now is serving as a judge on the state\u2019s court of appeals, is facing a bunch of attacks over his Christian faith.<\/p>\n

The judge told The Federalist<\/em> that he was expecting it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI expected to be attacked here, because that\u2019s what\u2019s happening all across the country \u2013 you know, \u2018Are you now or have you ever been associated with the Knights of Columbus?\u2019\u201d Hagedorn said.<\/p>\n

Here is was referring to President Donald Trump\u2019s nomination of Brain C. Buescher to serve on the U.S. District Court of Nebraska.<\/p>\n

Senators Kamala Harris of California and Mazie Hirono of Hawaii were greatly concerned by Buescher\u2019s association with the Knights of Columbus, the world\u2019s largest Catholic fraternal organization. The two senators cited the charity\u2019s \u201cnumber of extreme positions,\u201d particularly on same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n

\u201cInterrogating people [nominated for office] if they went to a Bible study or the Knights of Columbus,\u201d he said, \u201cthat\u2019s where we are as a country.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Wisconsin judge is facing criticism over the Christian school he and his wife helped establish. A number of media outlets like Wisconsin Public Radio and AP have claimed the school Hagedorn founded bans LGBTQ students, faculty and staff.<\/p>\n

The school\u2019s policy forbids students, parents and teachers from \u201cparticipating in immoral sexual activity (defined as any form of touching or for the purpose of evoking sexual arousal apart from the context of marriage between one man and one woman).\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

This policy technically isn\u2019t anti-LGBTQ because its restrictions don\u2019t apply only to LGBTQ. It is a policy about sexual activity outside the context of marriage.<\/p>\n

The bigger question is whether Hagedorn can rule impartially. As a judge, his job will be to separate himself from his personal convictions in order to apply the law impartially. He would have no issue ruling objectively, he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny judge who does not regularly issue a decision he does not agree with is not a good judge,\u201d Hagedorn said. \u201cMy job is not to decide whether I like the law or policy or not. We need to stop politicizing our courts and stop incorporating one\u2019s one views into judicial decision-making.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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