Dover's intelligent design curriculum controversy lives again i...

[Bob of Quantum-Faith]

Abbey Yoyo wrote:

<quoted text>
I'd love to see how long some churches would last without their tax credits. They have blackmailed government too long with the false notion that only church-goers are moral and law-abiding.

Indeed they have.

It's mostly a tax shelter for the very rich.

[Abbey Yoyo]

chipfle wrote:

<quoted text>The function of the American legal system is simply to enrich lawyers, "justice" or protection of rights are just rare, accidental side effects.

You can't forget the role that ignorant and stupid juries play in the legal system.

[chipfle]

Abbey Yoyo wrote:

<quoted text>
You can't forget the role that ignorant and stupid juries play in the legal system.

Indeed, but it is the lawyers who make it that way - the first people thrown off any jury are those with a hint of intelligence.