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Coragyps
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07-13-2006 10:20 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by kjsimons
07-13-2006 7:17 PM

I think that might get me a bit warm, too. I think that I've been told that you can "affirm" instead of "swear" here in Texas if you just tell the judge/bailiff/whoever, presumably ahead of time. But then I don't know for a fact how oaths are done here, or if it varies by the court.
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Coragyps
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07-14-2006 12:27 PM 		Reply to: Message 11 by kjsimons
07-14-2006 12:21 PM

Re: Its cultural
The government shouldn't automatically foist god on all jurors, witnesses and defendants.
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Precisely.
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And the New Testament has some verse prohibiting swearing oaths anyway - "let your yea be yea and your nay be nay" or some such. So the Christians shouldn't be forced to break their own rules, either.
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