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    This is a very interesting story. According to a story widely disseminated on Facebook, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued “a direct and final blow to the Islamic indoctrination" of America's youth with a decision banning Sharia law from being taught in the classrooms. However, there was no SCOTUS ruling. There was no such Supreme Court decision, Politico reports. And there was no tie-breaking vote by Neil M. Gorsuch, and no opinion in which he said that the only religion taught in this country should be “standard Judeo-Christianity, as our founders wanted.” Gorsuch had been sworn in only a few days before the fake story was published in April 2017 and certainly had not issued any opinions. Many people who read the story believed it, however, and shared it with their friends. The fake news went viral. The fake story was originally written by Maine resident Christopher Blair, aka “Busta Troll,” and published in April 2017 on his fake news website America’s Last Line of Defense, according to Politico. “Blair describes himself as a liberal troll, out to antagonize conservatives,” Politico reports. “But his work is so voluminous, and so consistently not interpreted as satire, that the fact-checking site Snopes has a tag and archive devoted to stories from it, with more than 35 entries.”


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    Must have been Russian trolls. Just kidding. Why anybody trusts FB for news is beyond me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    This is a very interesting story. According to a story widely disseminated on Facebook, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued “a direct and final blow to the Islamic indoctrination" of America's youth with a decision banning Sharia law from being taught in the classrooms. However, there was no SCOTUS ruling. There was no such Supreme Court decision, Politico reports. And there was no tie-breaking vote by Neil M. Gorsuch, and no opinion in which he said that the only religion taught in this country should be “standard Judeo-Christianity, as our founders wanted.” Gorsuch had been sworn in only a few days before the fake story was published in April 2017 and certainly had not issued any opinions. Many people who read the story believed it, however, and shared it with their friends. The fake news went viral. The fake story was originally written by Maine resident Christopher Blair, aka “Busta Troll,” and published in April 2017 on his fake news website America’s Last Line of Defense, according to Politico. “Blair describes himself as a liberal troll, out to antagonize conservatives,” Politico reports. “But his work is so voluminous, and so consistently not interpreted as satire, that the fact-checking site Snopes has a tag and archive devoted to stories from it, with more than 35 entries.”
    It indicates a fervent desire by the people to avoid becoming Europe or the Middle East. We ought to pay attention.

    Islam is not primarily a religion. It is a complete replacement for western governments. Sharia is antithetical to a republican form of government.
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    It indicates a fervent desire by the people to avoid becoming Europe or the Middle East. We ought to pay attention.

    Islam is not primarily a religion. It is a complete replacement for western governments. Sharia is antithetical to a republican form of government.
    I find it interesting that it is frequently the same people who view Islam with suspicion for being "more than a religion" and for pervasively affecting civil law in some of the places where it is predominate, while at the same time advocating for the supposed right of Christians to be exempt from non-discrimination and certain other laws because they believe they should have the right to practice what they see as their religion in all realms and circumstances, and that the State should support their beliefs by so exempting them.
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    What?

    Christianity has made a conscious effort to separate relgion from law as objectively as possible, as per the Constitution. Islam absolutely makes no such distinction between law and Islam. Islam is the law.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    I find it interesting that it is frequently the same people who view Islam with suspicion for being "more than a religion" and for pervasively affecting civil law in some of the places where it is predominate, while at the same time advocating for the supposed right of Christians to be exempt from non-discrimination and certain other laws because they believe they should have the right to practice what they see as their religion in all realms and circumstances, and that the State should support their beliefs by so exempting them.
    I find it interesting that you were compelled to pack so much crap into just one sentence. Thanks. You have shown it can be done.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lummy View Post
    What?

    Christianity has made a conscious effort to separate relgion from law as objectively as possible, as per the Constitution. Islam absolutely makes no such distinction between law and Islam. Islam is the law.
    "Christianity has made a conscious effort to separate relgion from law as objectively as possible"...except when a Christian believes that it is within his or her rights to refuse to perform even the job they were hired or elected to do because to do so would violate their "religious freedom". Or when the civil law changes in such a way that it no longer conforms to a particular Christian doctrine (or its interpretation by one sect or denomination) and many Christians want the law to stop using a particular word - like "marriage" - because they claim the authority to define it for all of society, according to their church's teaching. Large swaths of "Christianity" want greater control, greater authority to shape society in a way they see as more in line with Christian dogma than you give them credit for.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    "Christianity has made a conscious effort to separate relgion from law as objectively as possible"...except when a Christian believes that it is within his or her rights to refuse to perform even the job they were hired or elected to do because to do so would violate their "religious freedom". Or when the civil law changes in such a way that it no longer conforms to a particular Christian doctrine (or its interpretation by one sect or denomination) and many Christians want the law to stop using a particular word - like "marriage" - because they claim the authority to define it for all of society, according to their church's teaching. Large swaths of "Christianity" want greater control, greater authority to shape society in a way they see as more in line with Christian dogma than you give them credit for.
    Would an honest poster note the case he is evidently referring to involved a court unconstitutionally changing the law absent legislative action after the person had been elected?

    We have way too much judicial tyranny. The most a court should be able to do is return a law to the legislature with its comments.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    Would an honest poster note the case he is evidently referring to involved a court unconstitutionally changing the law absent legislative action after the person had been elected?

    We have way too much judicial tyranny. The most a court should be able to do is return a law to the legislature with its comments.
    It isn't tyranny when a citizen looks to the court for relief from an oppressive or discriminatory law and is granted that relief. Quite the opposite. The high court's ruling in Obergefell came about as the result of citizens doing exactly that, as provided for by the Tenth Amendment's last four words: "...or to the people". Did you think the justices were just sitting around one day looking for laws to overturn?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    It isn't tyranny when a citizen looks to the court for relief from an oppressive or discriminatory law and is granted that relief. Quite the opposite. The high court's ruling in Obergefell came about as the result of citizens doing exactly that, as provided for by the Tenth Amendment's last four words: "...or to the people". Did you think the justices were just sitting around one day looking for laws to overturn?
    No. The tyranny involved five men and women in black dresses changing the nation's laws unconstitutionally.
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


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