Since people on this list specialize in the law of government
and religion, they might be interested in the activities of the Atheist
Legal Center, and might even be inclined to work together with them on
some matters. (I would have been one such, on certain subjects.)
Given
Eugene, thanks for the publicity! My campaign address is:
Larry Darby for Attorney General
P O Box 3722
Montgomery, AL 36109
There is no limit on contributions from individuals.
Larry
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Eugene: thanks for posting this. I ran into Darby when I testified in
the Alabama Ten Commandments Monument case. Not someone I would care to
spend time with again. We were presumably on the same side of the case
-- against Chief Justice Moore's monument, but with allies like him I
was
I was interested when I saw the like to a must-see video at
honestmedia.com in his recent post besides trading in Holocaust
revisionism [deliberately phrased to annoy the PCCops], it includes stuff
depicting fees for kashruth certification as a secret tax. It looks like
the link was not
Can a murderer ever be
redeemed?
By Alex Kirby
Religious affairs analyst
The arguments over the fate of the convicted murderer Stanley
Tookie Williams challenge us to decide whether we are all capable
of change.
Whether
Williams should die for murder now
I have no certainty about guilt or innocence in this particular
case.In any event, the real problem for me is trusting in a judicial
system that concludes that blacks are chattel property, that Native Americans
are not persons, and that children before birth are not endowed with the natural
I much appreciate Jim
Henderson's thoughtful posting below. About 30 years ago, when I was in
law school, I remember very vividly giving a talk to the Menlo Park (or Redwood
City, I forget which) Lions Club against the California referendum to reinstate
the death penalty. The principal
Folks: This is an interesting question, but it seems to me that on this
list we ought to discuss it only to the extent that it touches on the
law of government and religion. (What religious people should think
about death penalty law wouldn't, I think, quite qualify.)
Eugene
