A big helping of southern-fried Christian Sharia

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Jul. 07, 2013 @ 03:34 PM

By Tina Dupuy, Guest Columnist
Tina Dupuy is an award-winning writer and the editor-in-chief of TheContributor.com. Tina can be reached at [e-mail].

North Carolina state legislators introduced what was described as an anti-Sharia law bill this week. The concern was a religion would trump our laws; threaten our constitution. This religion, they fear, would dictate our rights and punish dissent. It would blur the lines between church and state! Women would be subjugated! This is such a threat North Carolina lawmakers must act posthaste!

Then with absolutely zero appreciation for irony, the state senate amended the bill to quickly and somewhat secretly restrict access to legal and constitutionally-protected abortion.

Why? Their religious convictions.

Nice tactic: Scare people with the specter of Islamic totalitarianism and then pass a bill that would make Pakistan pause.

http://www.heraldsun.com/opinion/x177809779/A-big-helping-of-southern-fried-Christian-Sharia

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1. What these ijits don't realize,

and neither do most fundamentalists who love to quote Leviticus at women and LGBT folk, is that Sharia Law is largely adopted from the Jewish scriptures, aka the Christian Old Testament. There is very little difference in the practical implementation of Sharia Law and what the Dominionist Christians would just love to impose on the US.

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2. The irony is astounding. Great article on this.

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3. The irony

of opposing sharia and then turning around and slowly and systematically trying to turn this country into a Theonomy.

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4. Pakistan.

As of 2009, at least.

"Current law permits abortion only to save
the woman’s life or, early in pregnancy,
to provide “necessary treatment” (see
box, page 2). Because almost all
abortions take place illegally and in
secret, information about abortion in
Pakistan comes largely from studies of
women hospitalized for abortion complications.
While the evidence is limited, it
is clear that postabortion complications
account for a substantial proportion of
maternal deaths in Pakistan."
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/IB_Abortion-in-Pakistan.pdf

Even that would be handily struck down by SCOTUS at this point as too restrictive. And that's current law. Rooted in, well, let's not go there. So what? NC doesn't allow abortions at all, or have they scrapped the "save the mother's life" exception?

To give Pakistan pause ... That's a tall order. It's pretty much already stopped.