Seawytch
Information isnt Advocacy
Uh, if you go back through the thread, you'll notice that you're arguing my point. Sharia law is not being proposed in the US, even though the usual suspects are carrying on about Christian Sharia and other oxymoronic nonsense.What sharia legislation has been proposed? We DO have Blue Laws.
Many states prohibit selling alcohol for on and off-premises sales in one form or another on Sundays at some restricted time, under the idea that people should be in church on Sunday morning, or at least not drinking.[21][22]
Another feature of blue laws in the United States restricts the purchase of particular items on Sundays. Some of these laws restrict the ability to buy cars, groceries, office supplies, and housewares among other things. Though most of these laws have been relaxed or repealed in most states, they are still enforced in some other states.
In Texas, for example, blue laws prohibited selling housewares such as pots, pans, and washing machines on Sunday until 1985. In Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, New Jersey, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, car dealerships continue to operate under blue-law prohibitions in which an automobile may not be purchased or traded on a Sunday. Maryland permits Sunday automobile sales only in the counties of Charles, Prince George's, Montgomery, and Howard; similarly, Michigan restricts Sunday sales to only those counties with a population of less than 130,000. Texas and Utah prohibit car dealerships from operating over consecutive weekend days. In some cases these laws were created or retained with the support of those whom they affected, to allow them a day off each week without fear of their competitors still being open.[23]
Blue laws may also prohibit retail activity on days other than Sunday. In Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Maine,[24] for example, blue laws prohibit most retail stores, including grocery stores, from opening on Thanksgivingand Christmas.[25]
1. How many of those laws carry penalties such as whipping, cutting off hands, etc?
2. How many of those laws are enforced today?
3. Which direction are we moving, towards more blue laws or fewer?
See, to compare these to actual Sharia is foolish. You might as well compare a Summer breeze to a hurricane.
Keep shifting those goalposts. I'll ask again...What sharia legislation has been proposed anywhere in the United States?
We don't have "sharia", but we do have religious based laws...Christian religious based laws. How is that different than religious based laws that are Muslim?
The topic to which I responded specifically cited Christian Sharia law that somebody is supposedly attempting to create in the US. That's what I've been saying is not happening and you are agreeing with me.
Now, if you want to compare American law to Sharia, there's a vast difference between a law that prevents a business from being open on Sunday and a law that provides for whipping a woman with a cane because she was seen walking in public by herself. That's how it's different, and to associate the two is ridiculous.
Also, which direction is America going, towards more religious based law or less?
What is your point? The United States is not in danger of instituting sharia law. We do have laws based on religion and Republicans keep trying to pass more of them. A majority of Republicans believe Christianity should be established as our National Religion. Mike Huckabee thinks the Constitution should be amended to be more in like with the bible. That's your Christian Sharia right there.
"I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God. And that’s what we need to do is amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than trying to change God’s standards so it lines up with some contemporary view…” ~ Mike Huckabee.