July 3, 2006

Allegations Against MN Supremes Found Invalid

An attorney from Golden Valley, Greg Wersal, filed a complaint against MInnesota Supreme Court Justices after Dean Johnson made a statement to ministers indicating that he spoke with some justices regarding same-sex marriage. During that meeting, an anti-gay was there secretly recording Johnson. Ministers from the church were very angry that someone had come in and done a secret recording.

Last week, investigators for the Minnesota Board of Judicial Standards found no validity to the complaint filed by Wersal.

Who is Greg Wersal and why does he care so much? According to DumpBachmann, he a rampant homophobe and Bachmann supporter. He has written letters to the editor that support making sodomy illegal: "We have turned democratic institutions upside down and inside out. The people through the Legislature created a crime of sodomy that has existed in one form or another since Minnesota's inception as a state." He actually, accused Attorney General Mike Hatch of failing to defend the sodomy statute adequately enough. He has trivialized the GLBT victims of the Holocaust: "When one considers that gay activists frequently like to tell us that as much as 10 percent of the population is homosexual, it sounds as if they were grossly underrepresented among the Holocaust victims."

When Wersal was a candidate for Minnesota Supreme Court Justice, he sued Minnesota in federal court so that judges could speak out on political issues. This lawsuit cost Minnesota tax-payers $1.4 million in legal fees. It's ironic that his current complaint involves judges allegedly speaking out on political issues.

Greg Wersal is not a good person.

Posted by Andy at July 3, 2006 7:00 PM

Comments

The issue with the attorney fees is what? A rule was found unconstitutional and the state is on the hook for paying their fees. Its important to note that the right wing is trying to limit awarding attorney fees to the winners when it relates to religious cases (HR 2679) because the ACLU and other groups win a ton of cases and the religious right ... well ... doesn't win a lot of cases.

I also agree with Wersal with regards to the Dean Johnson issue. Dean did a very stupid thing.

Beyond that I tend to agree he is a bit of a nut job. But even nut jobs are sometimes right.

If Wersal's motivations were pure as far as the Dean Johnson flap goes, then yes, I would agree with his complaint. His nut-job leanings coupled with a partnership with Tom Emmer (very anti-gay) to bring the complaint, were truly just an end around option to generate bad publicity for those who voted against the anti-gay amendment in committee.

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