SQ 755 lawsuit.

SQ755 lawsuit

I'm not a lawyer but I'm smart and I've read the US Constitution. I've also read SQ 755 and all 25 pages of Muneer Awad's lawsuit.

He does show how he thinks he would be personally harmed by 755 going into effect but his main reasons just don't wash. Considering the over 40 years of judicial hostility towards anything Christian I fail to see why the references to Islamic Law cited in his will should be given any thought. Just put the details in and leave out the reasons why certain things are in the will.

He claims offense and injury, ireparable harm, stigmatizing, and denigrating his faith. If the Muslim faith requires judges to consider laws or beliefs NOT enacted by our elected representatives then I suppose it is being denigrated.

Admittedly there have been no attempts to use Sharia law in Oklahoma but elsewhere in the US it is being used in civil cases and a judge in New Jersey denied a restraining order to a wife because she has no right under Islam to refuse sex with her husband. Thankfully this was reversed on appeal but we can't count on this kind of continued common sense.

I also believe that if the woman had been Christian, Jew, or even athiest the judge would have gone with womens' rights from the start.

This injunction against 70% of the voters should never stand but my reading of the judges order indicates that she may have already made up her mind in the plaintiff's favor and the hearing next week is just for show.

Chuck

Free speech on NPR?

As a general rule, your right to free speech ends when you set foot on your employer's property. You can be fired for anything you say while representing your company.

HOWEVER, an organization that receives taxpayer funding should be more open. Religious based programs have lost funding because they refused to hire gays, transgenders, or just non-members of their denomination.
Churches can lose their tax-exempt status for getting too involved in politics.

If National Public Radio wants to continue receiving public funds, then they should allow all opinions, offensive or not. If they want to filter broadcasts according to one political vision, they should give up public funding and compete for advertising dollars just like every other news organization.

Burning Korans

Just to start off, I think burning anybody's holy book is stupid. All it will do is piss people off and solve absolutely nothing.

That being said, I don't remember any worldwide condemnation a few years ago when "Palestinian" terrorists holed up in the Church of the Nativity in Bethleham and used pages from the Bible as toilet paper.

We're always being urged to show sensitivity to Muslims but then they push to build this mosque near ground zero in spite of the knowledge that it will hurt feelings and even inflame some.

I guess the difference is, nobody's going to hijack a plane and crash it into Mecca in protest.

Where have I been?

I'm seriously going to start posting and work on getting some readers here.

"Anal" is part of the word "Analyze."

Why do women expect us to have a detailed review of EVERY song we hear and EVERY movie we see? "Ok" should be a valid answer. It means "average." I didn't especially like it but I didn't hate it either.