Palin: American Law Should Be 'Based On The Bible'

[Sewer]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/10/sarah-palin-american-law_n_569922.html

And we still have guys with republican avatars here.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Palin is irrelevant now, so who cares? The most she can do is lost to Obama in a landslide.

[Mechaman]

Sarah Palin desperately need to DIAF, now.

[Lief 🗽]

So... Christian sharia law?

[Psychic Octopus]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/10/sarah-palin-american-law_n_569922.html

And we still have guys with republican avatars here.

Yeah, life is a bitch.

[Landslide Lyndon]

In a serious country Sarah Palin, Liz Cheney and Rudy Giuliani would be trash tv stalwarts.

[TheGreatOne]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/10/sarah-palin-american-law_n_569922.html

And we still have guys with republican avatars here.

We have members here who think just like her.  Really sick people on both sides. 

[Torie]

Well most would probably agree that American law should not be at odds with the strictures of the Ten Commandments (well I am not sure what all ten are frankly but whatever).  The problem is the implication that somehow American law is in fact at odds with such strictures, or the opposition party's agenda is, or something. I really don't think beyond that, the comment has a lot of real substance. It strikes as more in the nature of an applause line, but maybe I have not thought it through enough.

Oh, one of the strictures is about adultery, and few would want to criminalize that, so just to be clear, in some  instances it might be more about American law not encouraging violations of the Ten Commandments perhaps. Yes, I do need to think this through a bit more.

[TheGreatOne]

If the 10 commandments were incorporated into the law, we would have no freedom of religion(First Commandment), no freedom of speech (Second and Third Commandment), it would be a crime to have an affair (Fourth and Tenth Commandment), and we would be forced to keep the sabbath (Fourth Commandment). 

[Torie]

If the 10 commandments were incorporated into the law, we would have no freedom of religion(First Commandment), no freedom of speech (Second and Third Commandment), it would be a crime to have an affair (Fourth and Tenth Commandment), and we would be forced to keep the sabbath (Fourth Commandment). 

I am pathetically ignorant on the Bible. I should have kept my mouth shut. But I am not sure Palin knows much more than I, or thought it through even as much as 1. Anyway, that is the best "defense" for my anemic effort that i can muster.

[memphis]

If the 10 commandments were incorporated into the law, we would have no freedom of religion(First Commandment), no freedom of speech (Second and Third Commandment), it would be a crime to have an affair (Fourth and Tenth Commandment), and we would be forced to keep the sabbath (Fourth Commandment). 

Let us not forget the one about coveting things, which contradicts the entire American economic system.

[Associate Justice PiT]

If the 10 commandments were incorporated into the law, we would have no freedom of religion(First Commandment), no freedom of speech (Second and Third Commandment), it would be a crime to have an affair (Fourth and Tenth Commandment), and we would be forced to keep the sabbath (Fourth Commandment). 

     I think the prohibitions on theft & murder are probably the only parts of the Ten Commandments most secular persons would want to see as parts of the law, really. Imagine if they passed a law against dishonoring one's parents; they would probably need to build 10x as many Juvenile Hall facilities as currently exist.

[exopolitician]

No. It shouldn't. Sarah Palin is ridiculous.

[The Mikado]

If the 10 commandments were incorporated into the law, we would have no freedom of religion(First Commandment), no freedom of speech (Second and Third Commandment), it would be a crime to have an affair (Fourth and Tenth Commandment), and we would be forced to keep the sabbath (Fourth Commandment). 

     I think the prohibitions on theft & murder are probably the only parts of the Ten Commandments most secular persons would want to see as parts of the law, really. Imagine if they passed a law against dishonoring one's parents; they would probably need to build 10x as many Juvenile Hall facilities as currently exist.

The prohibition against bearing false witness still rings true, though.  Perjury's a crime everywhere.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Dear Sarah Palin-

[Derek]

I'd love to see our country based off of that. Even though I've studied the commandments and know what they really refer too. It's nothing religious, but it would keep American conservative and in order.

[Associate Justice PiT]

If the 10 commandments were incorporated into the law, we would have no freedom of religion(First Commandment), no freedom of speech (Second and Third Commandment), it would be a crime to have an affair (Fourth and Tenth Commandment), and we would be forced to keep the sabbath (Fourth Commandment). 

     I think the prohibitions on theft & murder are probably the only parts of the Ten Commandments most secular persons would want to see as parts of the law, really. Imagine if they passed a law against dishonoring one's parents; they would probably need to build 10x as many Juvenile Hall facilities as currently exist.

The prohibition against bearing false witness still rings true, though.  Perjury's a crime everywhere.

     That's in the Ten Commandments? Guess I forgot about that one. Still, that's 3/10 commandments that would be acceptable in the law. Not such a good track record.

[Lief 🗽]

This statement:

It's nothing religious, but it would keep American conservative and in order.

does not follow from this one:

Even though I've studied the commandments and know what they really refer too.

considering that the first couple of commandments are the following:

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[anvi]

Why limit our efforts to make the Bible the basis for our laws to the ten commandments, when Jesus said that no one would be forgiven for either breaking or teaching the abrogation of Biblical law until "everything is fulfilled" (Matthew 5:17-19)?  We should under this warning, in order to maintain our identity as a Christian nation, apply all facets of Biblical law to American life.  We could follow Exodus 21:7 and establish legal conditions for selling daughters into slavery.  Or we could implament Exodus 35:2 and execute people for working on the Sabbath.  Or we could codify Leviticus 20:10 and put audulterors to death.  Perhaps we could instead follow Jesus' own words in making our legal directives.  We could publically try a man for being angry at or saying insulting things to his brother (Matthew 5:22), or outlaw divorce except in cases of adultery (reverting back at that point, I guess, to the execution clause), while also forbidding men to marry divorced women (Matthew 5:32), or outlaw the performance of all public oaths in which one swears by heaven's name (Matthew 5:33-36). 

Or, not.