Blurring the line separating church and state...

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Alabama is preparing to remove a Ten Commandments monument from their state judicial building, but a the state's chief justice has been trying to block it.

A judge. A FUCKING JUDGE!

Isn't there supposed to be a separation of church and state here? Should the TOP judge in a state be saying things like:

\"The issue is: can the state acknowledge God?\" he said. If this state can't acknowledge God then other states can't. ... And eventually, the United States of America ... will not be able to acknowledge the very source of our rights and liberties and the very source of our law. ...

\"When a court order departs from the law and tells you what you can think and who you can believe in,\" he said, the judge issuing that order is \"telling you to violate your oath. And he can't do that. Judges simply don't have that power.\"

Insanity, I say.

And while we're on the subject of church in the courtroom.... in order to testify in court, they have you place your hand on a BIBLE, and swear to tell the truth, so help you god.

If I don't believe in god, can I lie in court without the fear of perjury? After all, I'm breaking an oath I didn't really make. Or is there some special oath specifically for atheists, agnostics, satanists, whatever?

Though I love debating beliefs, this isn't really about that - it's about whether it belongs anywhere near our legal system.... I say no.