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! Moderator Note Which discussion do you wish to pursue? Asking the question or presenting your own hypothesis? You don't get to do both in one thread.

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No, it's not. Despite the fact that you can do that as an algorithm, it's not the same concept.

We don't add feet to pounds, though, we multiply them. (You could have units of apple-oranges, too, under some bizarre set of circumstances where apple and oranges were a unit and not a description.) Adding different units doesn't happen.

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Or it's proof by contradiction

The Constitution is there to protect the rights of the minority against the tyranny of the majority. So unless the majority is sufficient to pass an amendment, then such a law should not survive a court challenge at the district court level.

Just like a Christian Theocracy could happen here, if people start ignoring the Constitution.

In my OP I stated that the two are inseparable. I don't know how you come to ask the question, because my point has been that there is no prohibition on an individual practicing Sharia law (up to the point that an action violates the law) — it's fully compliant with the Constitution. And here you seem to imply I have stated the opposite of that. What can't happen is any religion using the government to force other people to follow their religious teaching.

We are predominantly a Judeo/Christian country because of who settled here early and in in greater numbers. The Constitution affords people the right to follow what religion they want to. As far as the laws of Moses and the Laws of Jesus, goes, we lifted rules that made sense in a secular fashion. Some of those are present in Islam, too. Do you really think Jesus cornered the market on "thou shalt not kill" (or the rest of the ten commandments)? ISIS is not the subject here, though. It's Sharia in the US, and how the fear surrounding it is propaganda pushed by the right. Individuals practicing Sharia law are as protected under the Constitution as a Christian is for following the tenets of Christianity. Adopting Sharia is as forbidden as adopting non-secular parts of Christian law. And that applies to all religions, not just ones tied to Moses. That is, for anyone who believes in the Constitution.