St. Katherine Harris: Ten Commandments "the basis of our rule of law."

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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/elections/orl-harris2706aug27,0,3348229.story?page=2&coll=orl-elections-headlines

Asked whether the U.S. should be a secular country, Harris said: "I think that our laws, I mean, I look at how the law originated, even from Moses, the 10 Commandments. And I don't believe, that uh . . . That's how all of our laws originated in the United States, period. I think that's the basis of our rule of law."

Harris' clarification seemed to satisfy Pasco County Republican Party Chairman Bill Bunting. Bunting, Saturday's gun-show organizer, served as Harris' host for the day.

Before she arrived at the gun show, Bunting said he was concerned about her comments because Republicans "need to be inclusive of everyone."

But after talking with Harris for a few moments, Bunting said all was right.

"She cleared it up," he said. "I'm comfortable now."

I would think that would be the biggest and most important one.

mikey_the_rat

Geez. She's ignorant, unstable, and on her way out.

It is unfortunately that she is rich. Wealth guarantees people attention whenever they want it.

Every other commandment has been over-turned by American law, except for Thou Shalt Not Steal.

American Federal and/or state laws may allow certain instances of "killing", or allow people to avoid punishment for killing

1- In Self-defense
2- In defense of others
3- Some might consider abortion to be "killing"
4- Some police jurisdictions allow the shooting of a fleeing suspect
5- The Death Penalty
6- War
7- Termination of life support and/or euthanasia
8- The insanity defense may be seen by some as allowing people to "escape punishment" for killing

Even "Thou shalt not bear false witness" has been nullified by American law.

For example, lying in court is only an illegal perjury if it effects the outcome of the case.

It isn't punishable by law to slander or libel someone, unless your actions meet certain legal standards.

Every commandment except Thou Shalt Not Steal has been over-turned, nullified, or has had exceptions made to it.

Which hardly covers ALL killing.

From those supposed slabs of stone god created out of the side of some mountain?
Yeah

The oldest surviving texts date back some 2000 years (and agree quite well with the standard Hebrew texts dating to c. 1000 AD that form the basis of most modern translations), and it's generally assumed that the first five books of the Old Testament were written some centuries before that (possibly as long as 2700 years).

What did you think I meant it by 'translated from'? French?

says something about stone tablets, moses, burning bushes (i like that one). Sounds like a couple "trips" i have had. No one has ever translated my "trips".

First and foremost, the commandment is thou shalt not commit murder. Murder is fucking murder. There is no exception.

Furthermore, if you want to use your logic of exception and generalization, then you are dead wrong in your statements about the commandment of 'thou shalt not steal' as well. Can't cops take away your property if they want to? Ever hear of confiscation? That too, technically, would be an exception.

But to be more accurate and logical, all commandments have been overturned with exception to two: Thou shalt not steal and Thou shalt not commit murder.

overturned as well. Remember Bush v. Gore??

Edited for typos.

your statement of every commandment being overturned by law except for though shalt not steal.

It was a joke.

Loosen up.

:)

5 and 7, and maybe 8. And really, 5 is okay, as long as you call the person you kill a terrorist. And 7, why, Harris, don't you remember? YOU set up the biggest theft in US history. And 8, that's just par for the Republican course.



Bunting sounds dumber than Kathy-poo.

At some point, you just know she's going to break down and admit that it was fixed.

Two words: "Challenge accepted."

Whenever I hear someone say, "Our laws are based on the Ten Commandments," I often turn to that person and say:

"Challenge accepted. Name each of the Ten Commandments, and then explain how each Commandment relates to American jurisprudence." Yes, I often have to explain what "jurisprudence" means, but even more often than that, I find people can't name more than five or six Commandments, at best. Even for those who CAN name all 10 Commandments, I have yet to have anyone explain how, "I am the Lord thy God, have no other Gods before me" has any correlation to U.S. law.

mikey_the_rat

Maybe someone should tell her that, according to the Holy Doctrine she is peddling, she should SHUT THE $%*@ UP and go into the kitchen and bring the menfolk a beer, which is the only thing (other than bearing children) an obedient Christian woman is good for.

all this time I've thought it was seven centuries of English common law and things like the Magna Charta and the English Bill of Rights.

Either Harris is an idiot, or she says things like this to mollify the idiots she wants to vote for her; in any case, it's sheer idiocy.

She's an ultra-maroon destined for history's dustbin.

I get so sick of that line and we keep just letting it pass.

"Our laws are based on the 10 Commandments"

That's absolute BS and anyone who has studied even a little bit of legal philosophy should know better.

The 10 Commandments are based on the principle that just government is ordained by God. The US legal system is based on the principle that just government is ordained by the consent of the governed. It's hard to imagine two legal principles that are more at odds with each other.

Ten commandments (there being more than one version*) survived into today's statutes: killing and theft. Everything else is optional or interpretive.

*Which Ten Commandments?

If so, I'm thinking she's in egregious violation.

who created our laws, specifically the ones about separating church and state? Man either all my history teachers and the writings I've read from Jefferson and others are wrong, or Katherine is bat shit crazy.

Its obvious they don't support a republican form of government anymore.

and now she's trying to get it back. They think she is a whore.