{"id":63650,"date":"2017-09-20T17:10:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T21:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63650"},"modified":"2017-09-20T17:55:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T21:55:19","slug":"dr-john-kerrison-weighs-in-on-the-south-carolina-supreme-court-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63650","title":{"rendered":"Dr John Kerrison weighs in on the South Carolina Supreme Court Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/opinion\/letters_to_editor\/letter-no-justice\/article_2542b1f6-9977-11e7-a90b-63b439487308.html\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Imagine you are in court getting divorced. You may be angry, relieved, or bereft of hope. Nevertheless, you expect fair treatment.<\/p>\n<p>It happens that you are married to a judge.<\/p>\n<p>Wait \u2014 the judge hearing your case is your spouse?<\/p>\n<p>Now the judge has ruled in her own favor on their own, personal case. Is this justice? Who cares?<\/p>\n<p>Think about that for a minute. This happened when S.C. State Supreme Court Justice Kaye Hearn ruled in a case despite her membership in the activist Episcopal Forum, and even though it directly involved her own church and disregarded established precedent of the S.C. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>When my wife and I formally complained in writing to the committee on Judicial Conduct on Sept. 28, 2015 about the conflict of interest in accordance with Canons 2 and 3 of the South Carolina Code of Judicial Ethics, we were told this was not a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Now that she has ruled, it is a problem on display for all.<\/p>\n<p>When you love God, you love justice. Blessed are those who are persecuted for his sake.<\/p>\n<p>John B. Kerrison, M.D&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Imagine you are in court getting divorced. You may be angry, relieved, or bereft of hope. Nevertheless, you expect fair treatment. It happens that you are married to a judge. Wait \u2014 the judge hearing your case is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63650\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,168,114,108,646],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-carolina","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture","category-tec-conflicts-south-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63651,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63650\/revisions\/63651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}