{"id":1331,"date":"2004-12-15T03:56:09","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T08:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/ten_commandments_robe\/"},"modified":"2004-12-15T03:56:09","modified_gmt":"2004-12-15T08:56:09","slug":"ten_commandments_robe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/ten_commandments_robe\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Commandments Robe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another <a title=\"Ala. Judge Wears Ten Commandments on Robe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uslatest\/story\/0,1282,-4673904,00.html\">Alabama judge strikes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A judge refused to delay a trial Tuesday when an attorney objected to his wearing a judicial robe with the Ten Commandments embroidered on the front in gold.<br \/>\nCircuit Judge Ashley McKathan showed up Monday at his Covington County courtroom in southern Alabama wearing the robe. Attorneys who try cases at the courthouse said they had not seen him wearing it before. The commandments were described as being big enough to read by anyone near the judge.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nMcKathan told The Associated Press that he believes the Ten Commandments represent the truth &#8220;and you can&#8217;t divorce the law from the truth. . . .  The Ten Commandments can help a judge know the difference between right and wrong.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, I can see it now: &#8220;Hold on, counsel&#8211;let me check my robe before I make this evidentiary ruling.&#8221;<br \/>\nI think Judge McKathan is in the wrong line of work if he needs special clothing to remind him of the difference between right and wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/ten_commandments_robe\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Ten Commandments Robe\"><p>Another Alabama judge strikes: A judge refused to delay a trial Tuesday when an attorney objected to his wearing a judicial robe with the Ten Commandments embroidered on the front in gold. Circuit Judge Ashley McKathan showed up Monday at his Covington County courtroom in southern Alabama wearing the robe. Attorneys who try cases at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}