Health: So you would teach your child a lesson in having respect by locking her up for 3 months in a small cell with complete strangers and take away 50 weeks of her salary at $200 a week and force her to sell her jewelry to go free?
This is chinuch to you?
You are confusing respect with pure fear and terror of people who have the ability to psychologically torture you and ruin your life. You think what the judge did causes sincere respect?
I agree with you that it is not the judges fault that this is what the constitution calls for (separation of church and state) but that has nothing to do with whether they are entitled to respect due to their position when their position (the American legal system) does not respect Torah and is inherently corrupt. Just because it is not their fault does not entitle them to respect.