An Oklahoma constitutional amendment that would bar the state's courts from considering or using Sharia law was ruled unconstitutional Thursday by a federal judge in Oklahoma City.
In finding the law in violation of the U.S. Constitution's Establishment Clause, U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange issued a permanent injunction prohibiting the certification of the results of the state question that put the Sharia law ban into the state constitution.
"While the public has an interest in the will of the voters being carried out, the Court finds that the public has a more profound and long-term interest in upholding an individual's constitutional rights," the judge wrote.Read the rest of the story HERE.
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2 comments:
This is how it's going to happen folks...1 state at a time. Look at Great Britain (London).
Ask yourself this: Do you ever hear Vatican/Canon Law or Jewish Law being discussed in relation to our legal system? Why then Sharia?
It just makes me sick.
-Martha
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