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This is, after all, Texas where the execute retard people and minors so it's best to have a sense of perspective. But recently in America there has been the appearance of laws to ban nonexistent "threats".
Texas' neighbor, Oklahoma, recently passed - by a heavy margin - a ballot measure which would ban courts from considering Sharia's law (Islamic law) in deliberation. Right. Because, in case you have not noticed, Shari'a law is the rising new recourse in the American judiciary and especially in Oklahoma of all place. Thank God that was made law before the .5% of the state's population whom are Muslim imposed Shari'a on everyone. A judge has motioned an injunction against the measure arguing it is a discriminatory law. It's intention clearly is anti-Muslim animus and fear-mongering by employing an easy target instead of outright stating that you hate Muslims and Islam.
Anyway, the other thing is "birther" bills. Tea Party fanatics are deathly certain that Obama was born in Kenya. Thus his presidency is illegitimate. Where's the birth certificate B. Hussein Obama?!
So right-wing nuts are proposing laws which would ban anyone from being president if they're born outside the United States. Consider how stupid. Forget for one second the conspiracy nonsense, but these zealots argue that Obama is illegitimately president because he was born overseas and the Constitution mandates that a president be natural-born, if the highest law of the land already mandates it then why propose a new state law saying the exact same thing?
Well, maybe the Constitution isn't specific enough:
Texas State Representative Leo Berman (R) furthered his campaign against President Obama Tuesday, a man that he has before characterized as "God's punishment on us," by introducing a bill that would require future presidential and vice-presidential candidates to produce "the original birth certificate indicating that the person is a natural-born United States citizen" to the Texas secretary of state.
Berman told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal that the bill, House Bill 295, is a compulsory step to take in order to correct an alleged gap in the law that allowed Barack Obama, who he believes could be foreign-born, to run for president.
"This bill is necessary because we have a president whom the American people don't know whether he was born in Kenya or some other place," Berman told the Avalanche-Journal. "If you are running for president or vice president, you've got to show here in Texas that you were born in the United States and the birth certificate is your proof."
Legislators in Arizona added an amendment with similar intent to a bill earlier this year, a measure that ended up being passed by the state House. Florida, Missouri, and Oklahoma also tackled kindred legislation, though all of them failed due to insufficient support. With the recent wave elections rippling through state legislatures, however, this is a pursuit that could meet a different fate in future sessions.
A poll released over the summer shed some light on just how prevalent a concern the Obama birth certificate issue was. In that survey, more than a quarter of respondents said that the president was either "definitely" or "probably not" born in the United States.
Obama has already produced a birth certificate. And the quarter who doubt it are just bitter racists clinging to their delusional zealotry.
