Niccolo Macciavelli advised any prospective princes to push Christianity for the peasants, but avoid it themselves. Whenever a politician waxes religious, I catch a whiff of Macciavelli. I'd have to know more about the judge's record, on and off the bench, before I called him a Christian. Does he temper his justice with Christian mercy? Is he a friend to the poor? Does he try to love his neighbor even when his neighbor is a scum sucking slimeball. (That's the really hard one!)
It has occurred to me that if taking the Lord's name in vain were illegal, you'd have to arrest most of us. Perhaps they could make it illegal in Alabama, and raise some revenue for the state, by fining everyone who says Oh My God!