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By Scott Kaufman
Friday, June 20, 2014 9:11 EDT
Michelle MacDonald, the Republican nominee for the Minnesota Supreme Court who neglected to disclose her upcoming trial for a DWI, is coming under fire for promising GOP officials that she would base her opinions on Biblical principles.
During a speech she gave at the Minnesota GOP convention in Rochester on May 30, 2014, she told the delegates that when judges used to enter the courtroom, they would hold a Bible over their head, like this, and then held a Bible over her head.
In the words of George Washington, she continued, it is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. According to Mount Vernon Library, that spurious quotation is frequently misattributed to Washington, particularly in regards to his farewell address of 1796.
She concluded her speech by saying, God bless you, God bless your children, God bless your families, and lets all ask God to bless America again.
The Friendly Atheist blog compared her to Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who recently made dubious legal claims based on his interpretation of the Christian Bible.
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(67,032 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)This nominee placing the interpretation of her preacher on a religious set of laws over interpretation of man made laws is Maria Law, every bit the same principal as Sharia Law.