From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Fri Jun 28 2002 - 02:56:39 MDT
> (Damien Broderick <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au>):
> At 01:54 PM 6/27/02 -0700, Brian D Williams wrote:
>
> >I got in a bit of a mess a few years ago when I was being sworn in
> >at court and pointed out to the presiding judge that I was
> >agnostic...
>
> Interesting. In Oz, I gather, an atheist or agnostic, or an oddball
> Christian who pig-headedly accepts Jesus Christ's assertion that it's
> sinful to swear, simply makes an `Affirmation' instead.
That's not a problem in most places in the US as well--most courts
are happy to take your affirmation, and most don't use a Bible anymore.
Even president Nixon was sworn in with "I affirm..." (he was a Quaker).
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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