{"id":188229,"date":"2010-11-07T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/07\/oklamoma-where-the-dumb-comes-sweeping-down-the-plains\/"},"modified":"2010-11-07T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T18:53:00","slug":"oklamoma-where-the-dumb-comes-sweeping-down-the-plains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/07\/oklamoma-where-the-dumb-comes-sweeping-down-the-plains\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklamoma, Where the Dumb Comes Sweeping Down the Plains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, someone decides to ban &#8220;Sharia Law,&#8221; in Oklahoma, which will almost certainly be overturned, someone already has a claim that it <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/11\/cair_member_sues_oklahoma_over_sharia_ban.php\">invalidates his will in violation of the First Amendment<\/a>, but the constitutional amendment, which intends to, &#8220;prohibit state courts from considering international law or Islamic law when deciding cases,&#8221;  also has the effect of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2010-11-05-Islamlaw05_ST_N.htm\">banning the 10 commandments<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[U of OK Law Professor Joseph] <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Thai said the ballot measure &#8220;raises thorny church-state problems as well&#8221; and could even affect a state judge&#8217;s ability to consider the Ten Commandments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">&#8220;The Ten Commandments, of course, is international law. It did not originate in Oklahoma or the United States,&#8221; Thai said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Morons.<\/p>\n<p>Both the politicians who place demagoguery above observing their oaths of office, and the voters who pulled the lever for this crap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, someone decides to ban &#8220;Sharia Law,&#8221; in Oklahoma, which will almost certainly be overturned, someone already has a claim that it invalidates his will in violation of the First Amendment, but the constitutional amendment, which intends to, &#8220;prohibit state courts from considering international law or Islamic law when deciding cases,&#8221; also has the effect &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1000,978,1021,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-elections","category-politics","category-religion","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}