From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:22:32 -0500, Adam field.near the bridge">
 wrote:

> George Sherwood wrote:
>> On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:56:36 +0100, Phil Payne wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> Mark recently reposted a long list of URLs I produced here long ago.
>>>> Of
>>>> course you can pretend you never saw it, but YOU, at the time I
>>>> posted it
>>>> originally, said it would take you time to look them over
and that was
>>>> your last comment on said list.
>>>
>>> http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/wrd/iraq-women.htm
>>>
>>> "The primary legal underpinning of women's equality is
contained in the
>>> Iraqi Provisional Constitution, which was drafted by the Ba'ath party
>>> in
>>> 1970. Article 19 declares all citizens equal before the law regardless
>>> of
>>> sex, blood, language, social origin, or religion. In January 1971,
>>> Iraq also
>>> ratified the International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights
>>> (ICCPR)
>>> and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which provide equal
>>> protection under international law to all."
>>>
>>> Hmmm.  "All citizens equal before the law".  Only
Arab country to have
>>> such
>>> a clause in its consitution.
>>>
>>> Only one to acknowledge international law, too.  Seven years before
>>> the USA.
>>>
>>> No wonder Bin Laden wanted you to destroy it.  He succeeded, too.  No
>>> more
>>> secular threat to Shia law.
>>
>>
>> Only Phil's actually believes that what happened in Saddam's Iraq was in
>> accordance with the constitution. He probably also believes that when
>> Saddam received 99.8 % of the votes it was free and fair.  Next Phil
>> will
>> quote the parts of the USSR Constitution that talk about Freedom of
>> Religion and tell us how great it was there.
>>
>> George
>
> How great is it in the bible belt if you are a satanist?
>
> Adam

There are lots of satanists, wiccans and assorted wierdness in the bible
belt, but don't mind me, as I actually used to live there.

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Gary Wiltshire

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