I have to agree with Dinocrat on the new administration being mostly boring now. While things were outrageous for a while, we now know that this guy Obama is over the top. No new news.
The sad part is now there is the change I’ll pass over some of the mundane items of business, like nominating legal folks when these items of business turn out to be outrageous.
See Harol Koh to the State Department, believer that Sharia laws has any business here in the US of A and believer in all things global – without really defining what that is. Global = Western Europe? Africa? Maybe the laws of Congo?
He’s a fan of “transnational legal process,” arguing that the distinctions between US and international law should vanish.
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A New York lawyer, Steven Stein, says that, in addressing the Yale Club of Greenwich in 2007, Koh claimed that “in an appropriate case, he didn’t see any reason why sharia law would not be applied to govern a case in the United States.”
Heresay? Hopefully.
and
David Hamilton who approves of the use of the word, Allah, but not Jesus. God is fine, as is Dios or Gott, but again, not Jesus. ??? I’m very unsure how this all works in his brain.
(ps – I am not one who thinks public things should have any sort of religious representation tossed at people. “under God” in the pledge, schools saying prayers [vs kids saying their own prayers]) Yet, I believe our inalienable rights come from God, I’m just confused by his though process here and since it’s sounds pretty Dhimmi to me, I’m throwing it up along with the Koh info.)
So what about our money saying “in God we Trust”, being sworn into a court of law on a Bible..just saying, a lot of our country’s traditions are pretty deeply rooted in Christianity. Just because you are free to believe otherwise and practice otherwise doesn’t mean it is okay to be intolerant of the founding fathers and( what used to be a lot of us) religion?
I don’t care about either of those things, traditional or not.
If they go away because “the people” want them to go away I don’t have a big problem with that.
The pledge God was added later under Eisenhower. The currency God was added in 1957.
Swearing on a bible in a court of law is already not a requirement. Our founding fathers envisioned a lot of things, but I doubt they envisioned a nation of Christians/Jews/Muslims/Hindus/Buddhists/atheists etc, etc etc
And yet – I don’t think that has made this country less American. I don’t believe that suggesting a Buddhist should swear allegiance to something he/she doesn’t believe in will make them any more or less believable.