janelane wrote:
] ] President Bartlet (Martin Sheen): I like how you call
] ] homosexuality an abombination.
] ]
] ] Jenna Jacobs: I don't say homosexuality is an
] ] abomination, Mr. President, the Bible does.
] ]
] ] President Bartlet: Yes, it does. Leviticus.
] ]
] ] Jenna Jacobs: 18:22.
] ]
] ] President Bartlet: Chapter and verse. I wanted to ask you
] ] a couple of questions while I have you here. I'm
] ] interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery
] ] as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. She's a Georgetown
] ] sophmore, speaks fluent Italian, always cleared the table
] ] when it was her turn. What would a good price for her be?
] ] While thinking about that, can I ask another? My Chief of
] ] Staff Leo McGarry insists on working on the Sabbath.
] ] Exodus 35:2 clearly says he should be put to death. Am I
] ] morally obligated to kill him myself or is it okay to
] ] call the police? Here's one that's really important
] ] because we've got a lot of sports fans in this town:
] ] touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean.
] ] Leviticus 11:7. If they promise to wear gloves, can the
] ] Washington Redskins still play football? Can Notre Dame?
] ] Can West Point? Does the whole town really have to be
] ] together to stone my brother John for planting different
] ] crops side by side? Can I burn my mother in a small
] ] family gathering for wearing garments made from two
] ] different threads? Think about those questions, would
] ] you?
]
] Found this the other day and thought the Memestreams audience
] should share the laugh. FYI: The stoning commences tomorrow.

I cant help but wonder how many people have ever tried to plead "not guilty because the bible says so!" and quote chapter/verse in their criminal defense?

LB

Laughing Boy wrote:
] janelane wrote:
] ] {snip}
] ] Found this the other day and thought the Memestreams
] audience
] ] should share the laugh. FYI: The stoning commences
] tomorrow.
]
] I cant help but wonder how many people have ever tried to
] plead "not guilty because the bible says so!" and quote
] chapter/verse in their criminal defense?
]

Well, the Scopes Monkey Trial was certainly a paramount of block-headed prosecution. CourtTV had this to say...

"Science had few native supporters in Dayton (TN). Judge John Raulston, who presided over the trial, carried a Bible with him into the courtroom, opened each day with a prayer, and only grudgingly removed a banner in the court reminding jurors to 'Read Your Bible.' Only one of twelve jurors was not a church member."

However, back to the Bible defense topic, I did learn that apparently repenting is still all the rage for the truly devout...

"He spoke of archangels, going back in time to shoot Nazis and believes he's dead, but a jury rejected those claims Wednesday when it found Michael "Mucko" McDermott guilty on all counts in the shooting deaths of his seven co-workers./Judge R. Malcolm Graham sentenced McDermott to seven consecutive life terms — one for each victim./The burly, bushy-haired defendant — who sat through much of the trial reading the Bible — showed no emotion as the verdict was read in a Cambridge courtroom."

Also in that vein there's this case (http://members.aol.com/TestOath/anarchist.htm) about anarchism which is just weird. Don't worry, AO-Hell can't get you just by reading the site. :-)

Finally, as much as I hate to admit it, I surfed over to http://www.fdp.dk/act/030418_fundamentalism.php (the anti-capital punishment people) and found this interesting tidbit when jurors admitted to consulting the Bible to determine the fate of a murderer/rapist/passerby-paralyzer. As much as I want the defendent to suffer the most gruesome death devisable (and we're talking Medieval stretchers and the like), I can't help but agree.

"During cross-examination, Taylor acknowledged knowing that having a Bible in the jury room could be grounds for having Harlan's death sentence thrown out."

Ooh! Maybe they could do that thing they did to Wesley in "The Princess Bride." If the scum is 25 years old, they could slowly increase the life-sucking for at least 10-20 years! Who's with me?!

janelane wrote:
] ] President Bartlet (Martin Sheen): I like how you call
] ] homosexuality an abombination.
] ]
] ] Jenna Jacobs: I don't say homosexuality is an
] ] abomination, Mr. President, the Bible does.
] ]
] ] President Bartlet: Yes, it does. Leviticus.

Leviticus was an imposter, if it was up to him, we would not be allowed to eat shrimp, wear trucker hats, and dolphinsex.org would be outlawed. "And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."

inignoct wrote:
] ] President Bartlet (Martin Sheen): I like how you call
] ] homosexuality an abombination.
] ]
] ] Jenna Jacobs: I don't say homosexuality is an
] ] abomination, Mr. President, the Bible does.
] ]
] ] President Bartlet: Yes, it does. Leviticus.
] ]
] ] Jenna Jacobs: 18:22.
] ]
] ] President Bartlet: Chapter and verse. I wanted to ask you
] ] a couple of questions while I have you here. I'm
] ] interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery
] ] as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. She's a Georgetown
] ] sophmore, speaks fluent Italian, always cleared the table
] ] when it was her turn. What would a good price for her be?
] ] While thinking about that, can I ask another? My Chief of
] ] Staff Leo McGarry insists on working on the Sabbath.
] ] Exodus 35:2 clearly says he should be put to death. Am I
] ] morally obligated to kill him myself or is it okay to
] ] call the police? Here's one that's really important
] ] because we've got a lot of sports fans in this town:
] ] touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean.
] ] Leviticus 11:7. If they promise to wear gloves, can the
] ] Washington Redskins still play football? Can Notre Dame?
] ] Can West Point? Does the whole town really have to be
] ] together to stone my brother John for planting different
] ] crops side by side? Can I burn my mother in a small
] ] family gathering for wearing garments made from two
] ] different threads? Think about those questions, would
] ] you?
]
] Found this the other day and thought the Memestreams audience
] should share the laugh. FYI: The stoning commences tomorrow.
]
] [ always liked that scene... kind of a "hell yeah! take
] that!" moment -k]

Ryan -- I love shows that make me feel righteous.

ryan is the supernicety wrote:
] inignoct wrote:
] ] ] President Bartlet (Martin Sheen): I like how you call
] ] ] homosexuality an abombination.
] ] ]

]
] Ryan -- I love shows that make me feel righteous.

I remembered this little dialogue after finding out that some people at my main hangout believe every word of the Bible. How could engineers, much less scientists fail to take even a brief academic look at something that was conceived out of human ingenuity?

Even the Memestreams-allowed HTML tags can't express my utter disappointment in "tomorrow's leaders." Or, at least, tomorrow's room moms.

janelane wrote:
] I remembered this little dialogue after finding out that some
] people at my main hangout believe every word of the Bible.
] How could engineers, much less scientists fail
] to take even a brief academic look at something that was
] conceived out of human ingenuity?
]
] Even the Memestreams-allowed HTML tags can't express my utter
] disappointment in "tomorrow's leaders." Or, at least,
] tomorrow's room moms.

[ one of the other students selected for the summer internship i did at auburn was a biblical literalist. this was an NSF internship to work on physics research, btw, so, yeah, not too different from your situation. anyway, i made the mistake of engaging this gentleman in a discussion about the subject, only to find that logic and reason were completely foreign to his religion, and not at all welcome. My frustration gave way to anger, briefly, and then quickly to resignation... people are free to be morons if they want, but i'm not going to respect them for it. -k]

janelane wrote:
] Even the Memestreams-allowed HTML tags can't express my utter
] disappointment in "tomorrow's leaders." Or, at least,
] tomorrow's room moms.

One of Nano's fellow bio students when she was doing her undergrad didn't beleive in evolution. Its impossible to do undergrad level biology without discussing and working with evolutionary processes. She was essentially majoring in something she didn't beleive in.

inignoct wrote:
] ] President Bartlet (Martin Sheen): I like how you call
] ] homosexuality an abombination.
] ]
] ] Jenna Jacobs: I don't say homosexuality is an
] ] abomination, Mr. President, the Bible does.

Homosexuality is dabombination.