Hah. If only they knew how many have the Word written on their hearts! How difficult then would it be to get the Bible out of the jury room?
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Hah. If only they knew how many have the Word written on their hearts! How difficult then would it be to get the Bible out of the jury room?
4 Comments
rebecca May 27, 2003 10:11 AM
for the record, i don’t think the jurists should have brought a bible into the jury room.
andrew May 28, 2003 11:22 AM
why shouldn’t they be allowed to bring a bible into the jury room? are they allowed to bring other books under such topics as philosophy, sociology, criminal psychology? what about novels like the atlas shrugged, siddhartha, or pilgrims progress?
rebecca May 28, 2003 11:55 AM
i don’t believe you’re allowed to bring in anything but court-approved evidence. i need to double-check that. don’t have time right now as i’m headed to work.
andrew May 29, 2003 11:51 AM
i don’t believe it has to be court-approved evidence. the article at cnn.com made no mention of ‘illegal contraband’ entering the deliberation room, only that some juries who enforced the death penalty were overruled by the judge on the grounds of ‘illegal outside reference material’. it was not wrongful for them to take the material in, because as is case already, it has been happening for years and only now are judges and defendants acting against the status quo. i do believe that a strong majority of prostestantism maintains a dispensational hermenuetic that unfortunately tells them, “eye for eye, tooth for tooth.” i wonder if most indepedent baptists offer burnt offerings at the local tabernacle?