There is nothing to keep the Congress from acknowledging that ours is a CHRISTIAN nation, founded on BIBLICAL principles. And, because the law is based on the Bible, then almost all significant judicial opinions should cite SCRIPTURE and the Constitution.
Judicial precedent should mean NOTHING. And the rapidly growing practice of citing Sharia in legal opinions has to he stopped cold!
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There is nothing to keep the Congress from acknowledging that the Earth is flat, but that doesn't make it true. At least believing in a flat earth does not violate the Constitution.
You don't like our laws. You don't like our Constitution. Why do you hate America?
Quoting the law of one religion should be mandated to prevent the quotation of the law of another religion? And you have no idea how that contravines whichever Constitutional amendment it is that says your country won't push one religion over any others? You know, that pesky church and state thing?
Can you also not see how doing so might be a wee bit insensetive to all the people, not just atheists and Muslims, who are not Christians in the US? Hindus, Pagans, Sikhs, Buddhists... it's a long list of people you're proposing the shafting of, in direct contravention of one of the cornerstones of the founding of your country. If you want what you say you want, you're in the wrong country.
There is nothing to keep the Congress from acknowledging that ours is a CHRISTIAN nation, founded on BIBLICAL principles. And, because the law is based on the Bible, then almost all significant judicial opinions should cite SCRIPTURE and the Constitution.
Maybe that pesky First Amendment that says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion". I know you lot usually skip over that one and go straight to the Second, but it's in there.
And if we're going to cite the Bible as the source of our laws, I guess I'm free to kill my neighbor as long as he's wearing mixed fabrics, or working on the Sabbath, or cheats on his wife then. When are we going to build a new temple and start sacrificing animals to atone for our sins? A code of laws built on the Bible would probably make Sharia law look like a paradise on Earth.
Judicial precedent should mean NOTHING. And the rapidly growing practice of citing Sharia in legal opinions has to he stopped cold!
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that not one case in the US has ever cited Sharia law as the basis for the decision.
WHY should judicial precedent mean nothing?
it's not automatically a ridiculous argument --- every case brought to court is unique, i can see why one might want them each judged on their own merits against nothing but statute law without regard to prior (and necessarily different cases --- but it's not automatically a correct argument either. the counterargument is that legal judgements ought to resemble similar past ones, in order to maintain a consistent standard of "justice" and avoid the court system appearing arbitrary and random.
really, i could argue for either side. i might argue a bit more strenuously for the sake of reducing the weight of precedent, but i doubt if even i would want it completely eliminated. the issue needs much more support than "it should be thusly, just because, period".
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..."
Yeah, the law is based on the Bible, because all these things are strictly prohibited in American law:
Biblical law = Sharia law
"There is nothing to keep the Congress from acknowledging that ours is a CHRISTIAN nation, founded on BIBLICAL principles."
Other than the fact that it isn't.
Yes, there is something to keep the Congress from acknowledging something which isn't true. The writings of the founders are proof of the fact that they wanted to keep religion out of the politics of the nation. Your writings are the ravings of an antiamerican lunatic.
There are NO instances of Sharia law being the basis of ANY judicial decisions in the United States, EVER. The fact is that you and Glenn Beck want to turn the US into a Christian theocracy, which is against every principle of the Constitution. You should shut down your computer and enroll in a basic civics class.
US law, which is based on British law, owes way more to Roman and Anglo-Saxon custom than to Christianity. The Bible doesn't present anything like a consistent law code, even as concerns Jewish religious law.
Um...I don't recall the bible giving anyone freedom of speech, religion, right to peaceably assemble, and bitch about the government.
"There is nothing to keep the Congress from acknowledging that ours is a CHRISTIAN nation, founded on BIBLICAL principles."
Really? Try this one on for size;
"all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land;" ~U.S. Constitution, Article VI, Clause 2
And what do we find in one of these "supreme law of the land" treaties?
"the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion," ~Treaty of Tripoli, Article 11
There you have it, the supreme law of the land says that the U.S. is not a Christian nation founded on Biblical principles and even Congress is bound by law.
"Judicial precedent should mean NOTHING."
Too bad it is the foundation of Anglo-Saxon law systems.
There is nothing to keep the Congress from acknowledging that ours is a CHRISTIAN nation, founded on BIBLICAL principles.
Except the very first amendment of your constitution!
I said it before, I say it again:
Here’s what I don’t get:
How come that people that
- do not care for the rights guaranteed in the US constitution (except the right to bear arms), do not know the US constitution,
get it into their minds they that they are the patriots and anyone that disagrees with them is “un-American”?
And I am asking that as a foreigner, having the feeling that I know more about this topics than any of these Tea-Party members and other idiots we have regularly quoted here.
It boggles my mind.
Confused?
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