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Originally posted by irseg
Funny how most conservatives rightly consider a criminal's plea of "temporary insanity" to be bullshit, but if anyone says they committed a crime because Jesus told them it's okay, that's just fine.
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I have to agree on that one.
If you have a true seperation of religion and state, religious reasons should not count regarding the law.
In some cases it can be an explanation why somebody did something("God told me","I wasn't myself", etc.) but it should never be an excuse and it should never affect the judgement or the punishment. But then again the US has jury trials and then the idea goes overboard since you can easily find a jury which would buy into that argument.