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pecuniumThe AFA has a poll, related to a case in Colorado which involves questions of religion and jury decision.
The sound bite is the jurors were instructed to consider (as Colo. law requires) moral factors in recommending the sentence (the verdict had been rendered). Several of them used biblical verses to argue that death was not only justified, but required.
Fred Phelps The Slacktivist has a great post (he's an evangelical Christian) on the subject. Be sure to read the comments.
He also raises a point; those who are opposed to the death penalty are routinely denied the right to sit on juries in captial cases. I wonder if one could argue religious discrimination (which is the underlying thrust of the AFA Poll).
So, the poll is located here Should the Bible be banned from the jury room? (I don't title them). Right now the ratio is 1,000 to one, in favor of it being allowed in.
The sound bite is the jurors were instructed to consider (as Colo. law requires) moral factors in recommending the sentence (the verdict had been rendered). Several of them used biblical verses to argue that death was not only justified, but required.
Fred Phelps The Slacktivist has a great post (he's an evangelical Christian) on the subject. Be sure to read the comments.
He also raises a point; those who are opposed to the death penalty are routinely denied the right to sit on juries in captial cases. I wonder if one could argue religious discrimination (which is the underlying thrust of the AFA Poll).
So, the poll is located here Should the Bible be banned from the jury room? (I don't title them). Right now the ratio is 1,000 to one, in favor of it being allowed in.
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Date: 2005-04-06 05:36 pm (UTC)I may have done them an injustice. I thought that the Bible-banning number was staying the same while the Bible-toting number went up, but I had not written the two numbers down to start with. Now I think the numbers are being manually updated once a day, but not at all on weekends.
It's not surprising that the Bible-toting number would be so much larger than the Bible-banning number; I hesitated a long while before giving my email address to those guys, even though I use my real name and my real opinions all over the place. It's one thing to say what I think; it's another thing to give my name and address to those who are politically hostile to me and my family.
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Date: 2005-04-06 05:51 pm (UTC)What I find interesting is the exactitude of the ratio. Those against the position the AFA is for have been a stead .94 percent.
From 30,000 to 3,000 to the present 127,000 to 1,200.
Makes me more than a tad suspicious, esp. as they had such terrible results with the "outlaw gay marriage" poll, and the reason I am on the mailing list right now is because I took part in that poll.
TK