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To: ndt
Isn't the whole point of swearing on the Bible supposed to make you fear not telling the truth?

My point is that it's not going to stop with the Koran.

Since all religions are equally valid, all will have to be accepted.

Scientology, wiccan, the religion you just invented this morning.

All of them.

57 posted on 08/10/2005 12:35:23 PM PDT by skip_intro
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To: skip_intro

" My point is that it's not going to stop with the Koran."

Why should it? Swear on whatever you feel like, you still under the threat incarceration if you lie.

" wiccan, the religion you just invented this morning."

OK, you lost me on that, I have no idea what you mean.


59 posted on 08/10/2005 12:42:18 PM PDT by ndt
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To: skip_intro
All of them.

Yes, actually. That';s what the Founders gave us.

The government doesn't have the power to determine the turth of any religion (except, of course, for the IRS!).

Once a faith has been established as such, it must be treated the same as all other faiths. It must be given the same access given to other faiths. If you give Protestants the right to speak before meetings, you can't deny Catholics the same right, nor may you deny Scientologists, nor Jews, nor Pentacostals, nor Congregationalists, nor Wiccans that right. All are equally "valid" for the purposes of the government.

72 posted on 08/10/2005 1:03:54 PM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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