Greer Russell
10 hrs ·
I feel like Dred Scott, the black slave who asked the courts for his freedom and was denied.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford. The same thing recently happened: as a disabled man, I was denied my sexual freedoms by a federal magistrate judge. The state is controlling my destiny and my penis. It’s so ridiculous.
We NEED to remove judges that openly express their religious, moral and political views. A judge is supposed to be impartial and fair. Not in Utah. Magistrate Judge Dustin Pead presided over my case that was challenging the brothel laws. Upon researching him when I began my case, I found his judicial profile, in which Pead openly praises his good, ole Mormon missionary days. I let any concerns go, as a judge is supposed to be fair. Well, he dismissed my case for saying I failed to “state a claim”, when I actually gave much evidence for my claims. There is no way his views in an invisible fairy god and a mythical book that lambasts “whoredoms”, tainted my case.
Besides the possibility that his religious views tainted my case, the ruling was wrong on so many levels. Let me explain:
1. Pead analyzed my case “facially”, which means he felt I was challenging all of the laws, when no: I was only challenging laws “as applied” to brothels. I made this clear through many briefs.
2. He failed to analyze my strongest arguments: equal protection claims. For instance, if a reason for not allowing prostitution is because it is not within bonds of family rearing; it spreads STDS, etc, then why are one night stands or escorts or sugar daddies allowed? He simply said I failed to state a claim.
3. Pead also failed to find those secondary effects in licensed brothels, which is what I was trying to open. Instead, he put all results together.
Needless to say, I feel exhausted. I feel breathless. All of that time filing documents and it’s like my words were ignored. I shouldn’t expect less from a man who believes in a cloud creature.
I have let the Utah Attorney General's Office know that I am filing an appeal to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. If anything, I am hoping the original ruling can get tossed from Pead’s obvious and open religious bias.
Utah Attorney General's Office
I will say this: the judge called me “intelligent” and said that my arguments were “engaging”. That I give him praise for. But flattery words can only do so much.
As a side note, almost all historic cases have lost in the first round. So this ain’t over.
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