Sunday, July 21, 2013

NC Senate passes 'Sharia law' bill

 

Just a signature from the governor and we are good to go.

The state Senate on Friday passed a bill that would keep courts from recognizing Sharia law.

While proponents of the legislation said it would keep people safe from foreign laws, critics derided the bill as sending a message of intolerance and bigotry to followers of Islam.

The Senate had already approved the measure when it was attached to a controversial measure that would impose stricter regulations on abortion providers in the state. But the foreign law provision wasn’t sufficiently critiqued because abortion overwhelmed the floor debate, said Sen. Floyd McKissick, a Democrat from Durham.

Now called House Bill 522, the provision’s contents haven’t changed. It reminds judges that the U.S. and N.C. constitutions are the law of the land and no foreign law can supersede them. Sometimes international laws are used in court as evidence before a judge, or in written opinions. But this bill would stop judges from considering foreign law when it violates a citizen’s constitutional rights.

More @ N&O

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/07/19/3042514/nc-senate-passes-sharia-law-bill.html#storylink=cpy

4 comments:

  1. Sign the damn thing now.... (it shouldn't even have to have been up for debate).

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    1. Precisely and it's even the popular thing to do.:)

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  2. " critics derided the bill as sending a message of intolerance and bigotry to followers of Islam."

    Catching on are they?

    Idiots.

    Now is the time to stop that horseshit in it's tracks, before it becomes a problem.

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    1. sending a message of intolerance and bigotry to followers of Islam."

      Bingo as I have zero tolerance for their murderous "religion."

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