Left-wing activists and the media in Wisconsin are smearing a state Supreme Court candidate for being on the board of a small Christian school and for old blog posts on cases about abortion and gay sex.
Brian Hagedorn, a current Wisconsin Court of Appeals judge and a former legal counsel for Gov. Scott Walker, said at the time he was considering a run for the top court that he “expected to be attacked here, because that’s what’s happening all across the country,” wrote Joy Pullmann, executive editor of the Federalist, in a column.
Hagedorn and his wife helped found a small Christian school that has a code forbidding students, parents and teachers from “participating in immoral sexual activity (defined as any form of touching or nudity for the purpose of evoking sexual arousal apart from the context of marriage between one man and one woman).”
The Associated Press, Wisconsin State Journal and Wisconsin Public Radio declared in headlines the school “bans” gays. But Pullmann points out that gay students who abstain from sexual behavior aren’t banned, and the code reflects 2,000 years of Christian teaching. If Hagedorn’s school is bigoted because of that standard, she wrote, then “all orthodox Christian, Islamic, and Jewish organizations, as well as many Buddhist and Hindu organizations, are centers of bigotry.”