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To: votelife
geez, I wonder what I should do next time I am in court and asked to SWEAR ON THE BIBLE "SO HELP ME GOD"

454 posted on 08/20/2003 4:23:35 PM PDT by Mr. K (mwk_14059 on yahoo IM - why dont we have a FR chat yet Jim? (i can give you the code))
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To: Mr. K
geez, I wonder what I should do next time I am in court and asked to SWEAR ON THE BIBLE "SO HELP ME GOD"

If you don't want to swear on the bible, you don't have to. You can just take an oath to tell the truth- no bible necessary. There have been court cases on this matter- atheists and certain ultra-fundamentalist protestants brought the case up.

709 posted on 08/21/2003 7:04:17 AM PDT by Modernman
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