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Please can we stop religious oaths in the legal process?

As a Quaker I have affirmed - and am aware that many of my predecessors went to jail for contempt for doing the same. It is due to the double standard of truth that Quakers objected - deciding that all honorable Friends should tell the truth all the time, so implying that they did not was wrong, just as making the oath was - IS - wrong. As it happens I am a Quaker atheist now, some would have a problem with that, but the law should be 100% secular, that all my Friends agree - and it is especially important in an era where religious groups are trying to get their religious laws enshrined in state law for the most ridiculous of ends. I commend this proposal to the house.

10-Feb-2012

5:18 pm