FYI: Oklahoma law on hold

" Judge Puts Hold on Okla. Anti-Shariah Amendment
Lawyers for the Oklahoma Attorney General's office have two weeks to convince a federal judge to remove a temporary hold on a voter-approved state constitutional amendment that prohibits courts from considering Islamic law. Religion News Service reports that U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange issued a temporary restraining order on Monday after Muslims sued to block the referendum, which was approved by 70 percent of Oklahoma voters on Nov. 2. Muneer Awad, executive director of the state chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, sued to block enforcement, alleging the referendum violates First Amendment prohibitions against religious discrimination and government-supported religion. The referendum, he argued, "says Islam is so uniquely threatening to the American way of life that it needs to be singled out as dangerous in the Oklahoma constitution. That stigmatizes Muslims in Oklahoma and Muslims all over America.""

 

That the law was designed in reaction to a judges ruling in this country is the saddest part of all.