Jesus Christ Withdraws Support In State Judge Election

Stop the presses, everyone. It seems everyone’s (or, at least, the Almighty’s) favorite candidate for DeKalb County, Georgia State judge has lost an important supporter. Roderick Bridges came to the attention of Above the Law for listing Jesus on his website as a supporter of his candidacy.

While on the surface it may have seemed a somewhat clumsy attempt to tout himself as a devout Christian, we eventually discovered that Bridges’s opponent, Judge Dax Lopez, is Jewish. Bridges has been making his opponent’s religion an explicit issue in the race, an altogether distasteful move.

But now there’s been a change on Bridges’s website:

Notice anything different from the previous iteration of Bridges’s website (provided below to commemorate Jesus’s first foray into DeKalb County politics)? It’s not the horrific grammar — that was also true in the original, though some (but by no means all) of the mistakes were changed — but Jesus is no longer listed as his first supporter. Perhaps the stakes were just too rich for Jesus’s blood, and he had to get out of the game while the getting was still good. That must have been a devastating blow to the campaign.

Also of note, an eagle-eyed, and maybe a tiny bit compulsive, reader sent us the below mark-up of Bridges’s original website. I can take no credit for the corrections, but I certainly do enjoy them.

Today is the primary, and we’ll finally find out if Bridges’s tone deaf and obvious Christian pandering actually worked.

Earlier: Jesus Apparently Cares A Lot About County Judge Elections

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Kathryn Rubino is an editor at Above the Law. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter (@Kathryn1).