Apache Junction, Ariz., July 31, 2011-
The Pinal County Greens today passed a resolution calling on the Arizona legislature to pass a bill to keep halachah, Jewish law, out of the state's legal system and to ensure that it is not given official sanction.
"We must make sure that no courts decide to follow halachah instead of our own Anglo-American jurisprudence," said Pinal County Greens co-chair Richard Grayson. "I'm proud to be Jewish, but if courts applied Jewish law in domestic and business disputes, it would be unconstitutional and un-American. In other words, pure mishigass."
"In addition, we cannot put our cheeseburgers in jeopardy," Grayson said. "Okay, we're just kidding, but if the Arizona legislature is going to give in to Islamophobia and pass a law to ban Shariah, it needs to be an equal opportunity discriminator against all religious law. Better yet, we should follow George Washington's words in his letter to the Touro Synagogue in Rhode Island and have a 'government, which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance.'"
The Pinal County Greens are members of the Arizona Green Party in Pinal County, the second-fastest growing county in the United States.
