Oh, I bet Hal Daub thought he’d grab all of the headlines on Monday, but the always unpredictable senator from Nebraska’s 11th District had other plans. Ernie Chambers decided to sue God. Yeah, you read that correctly.
Chambers is apparently doing this to prove a point about frivolous lawsuits, prompted by a lawsuit that he sees as frivolous.
24 year-old Tory Bowen accused Pamir Safi, 33, of rape. At Safi’s trial, Bowen was barred from using language that described the crime. Words like “sexual assault” and “rape” were explicitly forbidden by judge Jeffre Cheuvront. Words like “sex” were allowed. As Bowen and her attorneys quite correctly point out, forcing her to describe a sexual assault as “sex” basically forces her to relive the crime, and lie on the stand, all at once. Bowen filed suit against Cheuvront for violating her first amendment rights. Chambers claims this is frivolous because the state supreme court has already ruled on this matter.
From the AP story:
Chambers says in his lawsuit that God has made terroristic threats against the senator and his constituents, inspired fear and caused “widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants.”
The Omaha senator, who skips morning prayers during the legislative session and often criticizes Christians, also says God has caused “fearsome floods … horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes.”
He’s seeking a permanent injunction against the Almighty.
despite being quite a nice joke to tell, i don’t think this trial has a real chance to be started.
God (all religions-as far as i know- state that) is not a person and neither an industry or whatsoever, as a consequence i don’t believe it fits the requirements of the law.
Chambers’ aim is good because everybody can recognize that justice is slow not only due to the lazyness of judges, jurys etc but also for the fact that the arguments are sometimes absolutely, positively, incompetent. blame should be put on lawyers who pushes their client to sue everything on earth(and from now on, in heaven too) for silly reason, with the only purpose to ask for loads of money as a payback.
i’m looking forward to seeing how this goes on!
Since Nebraska and the US Court System has no authority over God, this case is ignorant and frivolous! Nebraska try electing better senators and not jokes to embarrass your state.
Actually, as the petition states, “This Honorable Court has jurisdiction by virtue of the fact that Defendant, being Omnipresent, is personally present in Douglas County.”
Actually if god is omnipresent than this suit is wrongly filed in state court. God would the constitute a corporation or a monopoloy involved in interstate trade and should be brough to federal court ;p.
I find this delightful. Authors like Sam Harris have helped to liberate mainstream Americans from the choke-hold of the insane religious right. It’s finally okay to laugh at people who claim they believe the universe is 6400 years old and that the righteous are going to be raptured bodily into heaven. Anyone who TRULY believes this nonsense is of course entitled to his or her beliefs — that’s part of the religious freedom guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution — but the rest of us don’t have to tiptoe around, treating these nuts’ beliefs as sacred.
folks LIGHTEN up .
its NEBRASKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what did you expect???
its a place where MEN are MEN and the SHEEP are NERVOUS!!!!!
HE sounds like the ONLY one that sees it for what it is.
GO ERNIE!!!!!!! you are truly the light in a sea of darkness and ignorence which trys to control people through the shakles of RELIGION , the MOST EVIL FORCE ON THE FACE OF THIS PLANET