Chimpanzee, on 05 October 2011 - 07:26 PM, said:
I'm not saying all of them I'm saying a percentage of them may be inclinded to unprofessional behaviour if they were the judge at a trial where someone is on trial for gay hate crimes.
I'm not saying you would, I'm not saying the next guy would, but a few down the line we'd get one that will.
So would anyone, why are you singling out homosexuals? I'm straight, so does that mean I'll come down on homosexuals?
Or women?
Or maybe you can invent some wild scenario for me.
All judges will at some point come into conflicts of interest. They are supposed to disclose these conflicts if they feel they will affect their ability to assign a ruling.
Do all do so? Probably not, they're human.
So, why are you making homosexuals a special case out of everyone else?
It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
-Terry Pratchett