Tut, tut, M'Lud!

So judges are not allowed to have personal views - or at least not allowed to publicly express them? In a very worrying development, a respected High Court Judge has resigned after being publicly reprimanded by the Lord Chancellor (who, let's not forget, is not himself a judge, nor even a lawyer) for expressing his personal support for traditional marriage in a couple of articles in the press.  There does not seem to be any suggestion that he has allowed his personal views to affect any of his judgments in court.  So just what had he done to be found guilty of "judicial misconduct"? Apparently it was felt that his views - or at least his public expression of them - was ‘incompatible with his judicial responsibilities’.  Which, whether you agree with him or not, I feel you should find extremely worrying.