As if being the author of the Inducement Act wasn't enough, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) has endorsed a federal judicial nominee who, according to the Salt Lake Tribune, "wrote that wives should have a subordinate role in marriage." J. Leon Holmes was confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.

Here are some tidbits that makes Holmes a real winner when it comes to being an objective federal judge:

• Holmes and his wife wrote an article in 1997 for Arkansas Catholic magazine entitled "Gender Neutral Language, Destroying an Essential Element of Our Faith" in which they suggested that "'the woman is to place herself under the authority of the man'" in marriage and "'is to subordinate herself to the husband.'"
• In 1980, Holmes wrote a letter to a newspaper in which he argued that "rape victims should not be allowed to have abortions because 'conceptions from rape occur with approximately the same frequency as snowfall in Miami.' Holmes has since apologized for the comment."

If I'm a battered wife or a rape victim, I'll make it a point not to go in front of Judge Holmes.