Posted
6/21/2005 05:39:00 PM
by Douglas
I wonder if I could get sworn in in North Carolina on a stack of
Juggs magazines, instead?
The state's judges will be asked this week to decide whether witnesses in North Carolina courtrooms can be sworn in on a Quran rather than a Bible.
The move comes after Guilford County judges rejected an offer last week by the Greensboro Islamic center to donate copies of the Quran, the Muslim holy book.
The Administrative Office of the Courts will ask the opinion of the state's judges when they meet this week at judicial conferences in Asheville and Wrightsville Beach, said Dick Ellis, a spokesman for the office. "An oath on the Quran is not a lawful oath under our law," W. Douglas Albright, Guilford's Senior Resident Superior Court judge, said earlier in the week.
Why? Isn't the book pretty much symbolic, or do they actually think that
no one has ever lied under oath in North Carolina? I suppose it's possible, but not very likely.