OK Accidentally Bans Native American Rights & 10 Commandment

Oklahoma Accidentally Bans Native American Rights and the 10 Commandments

Oklahoma voters recently celebrated the novelty of becoming the first state to ban the non-existent threat of Sharia law. Under the “Save Our State” constitutional amendment, Oklahoma courts are forbidden from considering or using international and Sharia law in their rulings. Beyond the obvious First Amendment problems with the law, in their zealous “war” against the phantom Sharia menace, Oklahomans might find unexpected collateral damage to the Ten Commandments, businesses, and now, Native Americans.

Oklahoma has the second largest population of Native Americans in the U.S and law experts like Oklahoma University law professor Taiawagi Helton point out that language in the law banning courts from looking at “legal precepts of other nations or cultures” could pose a problem if applied to tribal legal cases, as the tribes are considered sovereign nations. In fact, the Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission released an official memo on October 20 explaining how the “lack of specific tribal law language” could “damage the sovereignty of all Oklahoma tribes” and “starkly reminds [the Commission] that some Oklahoma lawmakers forgot that our nation and state were built on the principles, blood, and back of other nations and cultures, namely, ou[r] tribes”

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/ar ... paragraph2


Ooopsie... The law of unintended consequences bites the Religious Right in their Bible-belt-buckle....

70% of Ohlahomans passed this bill, so I am betting a fair amount of Dems voted for it too, maybe even a majority of them.

Any majority of idiots voting are sure to vote for idiotic laws (and politicians, by the way).

And since the 10 commandments were laws created in a foreign country, yeah, it would ban them....

Ahhhhh. My lefty brothers and sisters remain in the denial phase of their major losses during the recent election. Basically the current mantra is either, "those stupid people voted our lefties out of office...those stupidheads!" or "the right is stupid and they lie".

Is that workin' for you baby? I think you should keep up "the good work". Or you can just relax so it doesn't hurt so much.

But I'm thinkin' you are listening to "winners" like this guy. rofllol

After the Dem-olition, How Tough Will Obama Get?
David Corn

Now Obama has a tough choice. Does he continue with this approach, even as the Republican caucuses in the House and Senate shift toward the right and greater extremism, or does he recalibrate and set a more confrontational tone? It's true, as the conventional pundits say, that American voters don't like confrontation in Washington. But if Obama -- the guy with the bully pulpit -- fails to define the opposition in clear terms, it will keep on defining him and his initiatives to their advantage.

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/11/03 ... ly_inline2

You guys REALLY don't get it at all. I'm starting to think that, like that rampant George Bush Syndrome, extreme liberalism itself (like any extreme) borders on some sort of illness.

LJ, and his/her rage of the day, just shows you liberals hate getting spanked, and watch the liberal roach's scatter in Nov 2012 elections. Bye, bye liberal pie

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major bean wrote: There is no conflict between Oklahoma law and tribal custom. One law serves both. The response of some in tribal government is reactionary but the majority of the leaders are not concerned in the least about any conflicts arising.

I thought since the reservations are nations in their own right, their laws on their land, Oklahoma laws on Oklahoma lands?

major bean wrote: There is no conflict between Oklahoma law and tribal custom. One law serves both.

Tribes are sovereign over tribal members and tribal land. States and general congressional laws are not applicable to them.

Does this mean that LJ was attempting to start something that does not exist? WOW!

I don't believe it. Besides she quoted a very valid news source, not just some lefty blog.