Someone pointed this out to me. An admonition in the Bible for lawmakers.

[Skidmore]

Sometimes you need to fight fire with fire and the Stephen Finchers in Congress who are insisting on laws based on biblical text need to hear some that they may not like.

Isaiah 10
10 Woe to those who make unjust laws,
to those who issue oppressive decrees,
2 to deprive the poor of their rights
and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,
making widows their prey
and robbing the fatherless.
3 What will you do on the day of reckoning,
when disaster comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?
Where will you leave your riches?
4 Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives
or fall among the slain.
Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,
his hand is still upraised.

[xchrom]

1. du rec.

[Pholus]

2. Well I never! You are certainly taking that out of context!

I've noticed that "context" is always the last refuge of the conservative who's just been skewered on their own words....

I like that section though. I just have to commit a bit of it to memory....thanks!

[n2doc]

3. That' the Bible for ya

You can find something to support almost any position in it. Not that I disagree with this particular sentiment. But the Bible suffers from "multiple personality syndrome".

[Skidmore]

4. It suffered more from too many editors.

[PD Turk]

5. Malachi 3:5

Malachi 3:5

So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me," says the LORD Almighty

[Skidmore]

6. More ammunition.

[PD Turk]

7. yep

The KJV says "oppress the hireling in his wages". I've put a few dour looks on their faces by quoting that one

[duhneece]

8. Do Justice Micah 6:8

Micah Chapter 6 Verse 8 ... and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

[bvar22]

9. Ezekiel 25:17

[font size=3]"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."[/font]

Gotta hand it to Sam Jackson.
Nobody has ever done this verse better!