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 Posted - 11/08/2010 : 09:03:39
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... not the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Oklahoma may have banned Ten Commandments along with Sharia law
By David Edwards
Monday, November 8th, 2010 -- 11:07 am
Residents in Oklahoma thought they were voting to ban Sharia law last Tuesday but it turns out that the new constitutional amendment may also extend to the Ten Commandments.
The Oklahoma ballot measure orders judges not to consider Islamic or international law when deciding cases.
But Rick Tepker, a law professor at the University of Oklahoma School of Law believes the "Save Our State" constitutional amendment may have the unwanted side effect of preventing judges from referencing the Ten Commandments. Tepker called the measure "a mess."
"Many of us who understand the law are scratching our heads this morning, laughing so we don't cry," he told CNN. "I would like to see Oklahoma politicians explain if this means that the courts can no longer consider the Ten Commandments. Isn’t that a precept of another culture and another nation? The result of this is that judges aren’t going to know when and how they can look at sources of American law that were international law in origin."
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This should at least be good for a laugh. It's the sort of thing that happens when idiots try to turn religion into law. History is full of this sort of thing, but idiots don't read history and thus learn squat from it. 
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Oklahoma can ban Sharia Law, but......
