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In God’s Hands
Debt ceiling bill puts South Carolina vs the world in House Politico
Three of the five South Carolina representatives refusing to support House Speaker John Boehner’s bill met for prayer last night in the small chapel adjacent to the Capitol Rotunda. The South Carolina representatives — including Rep Joe Wilson, who infamously shouted out ‘Liar’ during President Obama’s address to the nation — is firm that they will not negotiate their demands.
Implicitly God is advising them on the nation’s economic strategy, which the group seeks regularly in prayer together. Another adviser is ultra Conservative South Carolina senator Jim DeMint, who is totally opposed to Boehner’s bill. DeMint only supports the Cut, Cap, and Balance plan passed in the House.
“I know it’s been frustrating to our leadership sometimes, because they look at South Carolina and say, ‘What are these crazy guys going to do now?’ But all we’re doing is being true to our state,” (Mick) Mulvaney said.
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Saudi Arabia’s Child Brides
Before Americans jump all over Saudi cleric Sheik Saleh al-Fawzan, the prominent imam who has backed a religious ruling allowing for fathers to arrange their daughters’ marriages ‘even if they are in the cradle’, let us remember that America has its own issues in the state of Texas and elsewhere.
To read a religious cleric disapprove of sexual intercourse with girls “unless they are capable of being placed beneath and bearing the weight of men” may sound barbaric, but how different is Sheik Saleh al-Fawzan’s fatwah from underage marriage in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints?
In Saudi Arabia, Saleh-al-Fawzan cites a passage in the Quran regarding the prophet Muhammad’s marriage to a 6-year-old girl. The CSM writes that the highly-respected cleric also issued a 2003 fatwa stating that “slavery is part of Islam”.
Worldwide, more than 60 million girls end up as child brides, meaning they marry before the age of 18. Typically, the girls are married to older men by poor parents for her dowry. She is sold. It’s all very tidy and totally sanctioned by God.
Writing about the problem of child brides in Egypt, Al-Masry Al-Youm says:
As Egypt enters the peak of summer, there is a shadow economy that few dare to discuss: “Seasonal” or “transactional” marriages between Egyptian women and wealthy men from Arab Gulf countries. These marriages, which often involve women below the legal age of 18, are temporary and illegal marriage contracts and one of the most common forms of human trafficking in Egypt.
America’s Child Brides
In America, Warren Jeffs is on trial in Texas on two counts of sexual assault of a child. This is not the first time Warren Jeffs has been in court on charges relating to his beliefs as a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Like Saleh-al-Fawzan, Jeffs says that he answers to a higher authority than the US court system and US laws.
Jeffs said his church ( has practiced five generations of polygamy as ordered by God, a higher power than U.S. courts. Jeffs ended by saying “amen,” then repeatedly interrupted a prosecutor’s response.
Yesterday Texas judge Barbara Walther warned the defendent Jeffs to not call “for the jury’s destruction”. Speaking as if he is God, Jeffs said:
“I, the Lord God of heaven, ask the courts to cease the prosecution of my holy ways… . There will be a judgment against all those who prosecute the church. … I shall let all people know of your unjust ways. I will bring sickness and death. Let this cease.”
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