About 150 people met in Lansing today to support a bill banning foreign or religious laws in Michigan. The measure would forbid courts from using such laws in their deliberations.
A lot of the commentary at the meeting was directed against Sharia laws that are used in some Islamic traditions.
“The thing I’m concerned about is foreign influences in our court system,” says Tom Craig of Spring Lake, who attended the rally. “I think the United States was founded on its constitution, not the constitution or the will of some foreign country.”
“It’s just simply protecting your constitutional rights, whether state or federal, from any foreign law that allows you to lose it in a court of law and progressive judges are allowing this to occur, so the purpose is to clarify public policy. That’s what this bill does,” says Republican state Representative David Agema, who sponsored the measure.
But the rally, and the legislation, has been condemned by the Michigan Catholic Conference. The conference says the law could lead to courts meddling in religious affairs.
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