Posted on 11/29/2010 1:41:32 PM PST by Islaminaction
In this disappointing but not surprising update to the elected Sharia ban in Oklahoma Courts, we see that Judge Miles-LaGrange has gone against the will of the people. As she has blocked the certification of the Sharia ban. This is a preliminary injunction, until a final decision is made on the lawsuit. But for now, she just handed Islam a victory.
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Did it ever occur to you the Constitution may not be perfect? Or that granting Islam religion status was a mistake?
Yes, you are. The restriction still only applies to Congress. Article VI Clause 2 requires all judges to recognize this and rule accordingly. That's it. It does not instruct the judges to apply restrictions on Congress laid out in the Constitution to the legislatures of their own states.
I understand you did not explicitly claim that it does, but preseting it in this context seems a clear attempt to create the perception that it does.
You're blinded by the "Sharia" aspects of the case. It's a more general issue, though. As it happens, judges are often asked to rule on matters involving the internal "laws" of various religions, with regard to matters regarding property and other matters.
Over the course of 150+ years of rulings on such matters, the courts have adopted a "deference" approach, whereby they'll defer to the internal rules of a religious body rather than make rulings that interfere with the First Amendment.
A classic expression of this principle is given in Watson vs. Jones (1871):
In such cases where the right of property in the civil court is dependent on the question of doctrine, discipline, ecclesiastical law, rule, or custom, or church government, and that has been decided by the highest tribunal within the organization to which it has been carried, the civil court will accept that decision as conclusive, and be governed by it in its application to the case before it.
It's clear that the Oklahoma law would violate that principle.
I am still waiting for you to explain how Christians are going to go around Muslim countries and convert most of the women. How about Somalia? Why don’t you start there, do you even know what would happen to you if you were caught?
Then explain why no one but you has ever thought of this idea before.
Thank you.
Did it ever occur to you that you can use more than your immediate emotional response when formulating a comment?
Grown-ups have learned that it's often helpful to think before typing. Part of that process involves considering the logical consequences of the position you take, and abandoning such positions as turn out to be foolish.
As it happens, the logical consequences of your position with regard to Islam, have already been fully worked out in other places, with regard to other demographic groups. It's been worked out in Germany, for example, between about 1934-45. Or in Rwanda, in the mid-90s.
It's already happening.
But you're blind and silly, so I'm really not going to waste any more time on you.
The number of Muslims is on the rise, so what you are saying is just not true.
Now go run away from reality.
Over 8 years of following this issue is not an immediate emotional response, and it is a fact that Muslims are taking over more and more of the world. Your constant childish comments, show you have no real input on this issue. Fact is that Germany is being threaten by Muslim immigration, and most politicians are afraid to take on Islam, because of its religion status.
MY position is being followed by more and more Americans each day. They have the courage to face the reality of Islam. I applaud them.
I am cognizant of the aspects of "Sharia" that have the potential to come into conflict with civil law, and the objectives of Islam to have it be considered authoritative.
And you clearly are not willing to consider anything beyond the stove-pipe view you're taking on this case.
Have a nice day.
The Constituion of the State of Minnesota is the business of the citizens of Minnesota. If it is not, then they are not sovereign, and the republic is a sham.
Miles-LaGrange was nominated by President William J. Clinton on September 22, 1994, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma
ENOUGH SAID!!!
The US Constitution (Article VI, Clause 2) says otherwise.
But thanks for trying.
Not to anyone who can read.
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