Middle America's Worldview

Read for Friday. I was on support today for work. This morning wasn't bad, but it made up for it later.

I did get a chance to put out more flyers for my School Board campaign. The vote is next Tuesday. Working those lunches and ect. when I can. I have to say I am a bit nervous. I am up against someone, everyone knows, yet hasn't spent anytime campaigning for himself. I met him the first time today. He was actually younger than I was thinking. Oh well, I guess the people will decide next Tuesday.

I leave the below excerpt that was emailed to me recently.
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Recently the Colorado Supreme Court, by a vote of 3-2, threw out a death sentence for a man convicted of rape and murder. The reason? Some jurors in the jury room read from the Bible before reaching a verdict.



Oddly enough, the judge in the case – as Colorado law requires – sent the jury off to deliberate about the death penalty with an instruction to think beyond the narrow confines of the law. Each juror, the judge told the panel, must make an "individual moral assessment," in deciding whether the defendant should live.



The jurors voted unanimously for death. But the Colorado Supreme Court changed his sentence to life in prison without parole.



"The biblical passages the jurors discussed constituted either a part of the jurors' moral and religious precepts or their general knowledge, and thus were relevant to their court-sanctioned moral assessment," the dissenting judges wrote.



Of course, the ACLU praised the ruling saying that the use of the Bible in the jury room was illegal due to the separation of church and state.