You mean, if Al Gore were to be elected President--- he could be sworn in on his DVD "An Inconvenient Truth"?
Posted on 05/25/2007 4:59:38 PM PDT by melt
A North Carolina judge has ruled that any religious text can be used to swear in a witness or juror in the state's courtrooms, not just the Bible.
State law currently allows witnesses preparing to testify in court to take their oath in three ways: by laying a hand over "the Holy Scriptures," by saying "so help me God" without the use of a religious book, or by an affirmation using no religious symbols.
The American Civil Liberties Union sued on behalf of a Muslim woman who wasn't allowed to take her oath on the Quran.
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You mean, if Al Gore were to be elected President--- he could be sworn in on his DVD "An Inconvenient Truth"?
Creeping incrementalism.
So when questioned, can the person swearing on a Quran be asked about the verse that permits lying to non Muslims?
Shhh.
Or the passage that states all Infidels must die if they don't convert to Islam.
What if the religion doesn't have a written text - but is (or was) an established religion? Do they plan to discriminate against followers of Apollo? Of Mars and Jupiter? Of Skadhi?
Quite a can of worms, I think.
I can’t believe she said that re your tagline
Political Correctness strikes again. Thank you Bill & Hillary for forcing this down our throats.
No doubt a Rat appointed judge, probably Clinton.
I swear on a stack of L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics to tell the truth the whole truth....
-PJ
What makes you think swearing on the Bible keeps a liar from lying.
Inherit the Wind!Shades of the “Skopes Trial”?
1. [2.19] Or like abundant rain from the cloud in which is utter darkness and thunder and lightning; they put their fingers into their ears because of the thunder peal, for fear of death, and Allah encompasses the unbelievers.
2. [2.24] But if you do (it) not and never shall you do (it), then be on your guard against the fire of which men and stones are the fuel; it is prepared for the unbelievers.
3. [2.34] And when We said to the angels: Make obeisance to Adam they did obeisance, but Iblis (did it not). He refused and he was proud, and he was one of the unbelievers.
4. [2.89] And when there came to them a Book from Allah verifying that which they have, and aforetime they used to pray for victory against those who disbelieve, but when there came to them (Prophet) that which they did not recognize, they disbelieved in him; so Allah's curse is on the unbelievers.
5. [2.90] Evil is that for which they have sold their souls-- that they should deny what Allah has revealed, out of envy that Allah should send down of His grace on whomsoever of His servants He pleases; so they have made themselves deserving of wrath upon wrath, and there is a disgraceful punishment for the unbelievers.
6. [2.98] Whoever is the enemy of Allah and His angels and His apostles and Jibreel and Meekaeel, so surely Allah is the enemy of the unbelievers.
7. [2.104] O you who believe! do not say Raina and say Unzurna and listen, and for the unbelievers there is a painful chastisement.
8. [2.109] Many of the followers of the Book wish that they could turn you back into unbelievers after your faith, out of envy from themselves, (even) after the truth has become manifest to them; but pardon and forgive, so that Allah should bring about His command; surely Allah has power over all things.
9. [2.191] And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers.
10. [2.254] O you who believe! spend out of what We have given you before the day comes in which there is no bargaining, neither any friendship nor intercession, and the unbelievers-- they are the unjust.
What about the Book of Mormon?
Maybe i have a different perspective on this because I’m jewish. But this seems like a common-sense ruling. For example, would you force a jew to swear on a King James Bible?
Maybe i have a different perspective on this because I’m jewish. But this seems like a common-sense ruling. For example, would you force a jew to swear on a King James Bible?
If the Koran is acceptable, then why not "Mein Kampf"?
I wondered....what would happen if you said no?
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