Church And State
Vanness, Mary
Second Long Paper
Church and State
October 26, 2006
The first phase of the first Amendment in the "Bill of Right" states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Then there is the Sharia law. This law is only in the country of Iran. Women under the Sharia law are treated very differently then women in the United States. These women are treated badly. The Sharia does not separate church and state.
The Sharia law is also known as the Islamic law. Clark Lombardi says Sharia means "the path to a watering hole." (www.butterflies and wheels. com) Sharia is a religious code for living. The Koran is the Holy text of Islam living, in the same way the Bible offer a moral system for Christians. Most Muslims or individual under this law have adopted it to a grater of lesser degree. To me this is a matter of personal conscience, but can also be instituted as a law formally by certain states and......
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