Nowhere does it say that "In my jail, I don't even allow family members to send Jewish or Catholic versions of the Bible to Jews and Catholics" like you claim. If you look at my previous post, there's a link to the local paper. There you can read that immates are allowed all types of religious books. But why should the Christian taxpayers of Berkeley County (probably 99% of the taxpayers) pay for Korans?
Not according to the U.S. Supreme Court which is empowered by the U.S. Constitution to decide the issue.
Nullification is as dead as John C. Calhoun's body buried behind St. Philip's Episcopal Church.
Nowhere does it say that "In my jail, I don't even allow family members to send Jewish or Catholic versions of the Bible to Jews and Catholics" like you claim.
Maybe we are reading different languages but, at least in plain English, that is EXACTLY what the body of this thread says that the Sheriff does:
"The US Justice Department is asking a federal judge in South Carolina to allow it to intervene in a lawsuit against a sheriff who allegedly forbids prisoners in his jail from receiving books, magazines, or printed materials other than copies of the King James version of the Bible."
The last I heard, the "Authorized King James Version" of the Bible was written and "authorized" by the Church of England as a result of objections to earlier translations by the Puritan faction.
The last I heard, the Torah was written in Hebrew and not in 17th Century English.
A King James Version of the Bible is NOT a Catholic Bible and it is NOT a Torah.
If it is your claim and the Sheriff's claim that the article is lying, then it is the lawsuit's claim that the Sheriff is lying. The facts will come out in Court.
Be that as it may, your original position was:
"As far as the Torah and the Koran, it doesn't seem like the sheriff has outlawed them, he's just saying his office won't pay for them, you get your own. Again, what's wrong with that?"
Who carries a Bible or a Torah around with them? If you are in jail and you are forbidden to receive any book except the King James Version of the Bible, how, exactly, are you supposed to acquire a Torah if you are Jewish?
In Utah, the analogous situation would read like this:
"The US Justice Department is asking a federal judge in Utah to allow it to intervene in a lawsuit against a sheriff who allegedly forbids prisoners in his jail from receiving books, magazines, or printed materials other than copies of the The Book of Mormon."