http://www.randi.org/jr/2007-09/092107packt.html#i6
"GOD SUED
Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers, 70, a civil rights leader in
Omaha's black community, is described as Nebraska's most prominent and
outspoken black leader. Now he’s suing God – presumably the
Jehovah/Moses/Abraham version we know to be insecure, petulant,
vindictive, vengeful, and so very full of Himself – to prove a point
about frivolous lawsuits. Ernie says that senators have periodically
offered bills prohibiting the filing of certain types of suits. "Thus,
anybody can file a lawsuit against anybody – even God," he said. His
lawsuit seeks a permanent injunction ordering God to cease certain
harmful activities and the making of terroristic threats.
The lawsuit admits that the God against whom the senator brings the
action, goes by all sorts of alternate names, titles and designations,
and it also recognizes the fact that the defendant – by accepted
definition – is omnipresent, though in the lawsuit, Chambers said he's
tried – unsuccessfully – to contact God on numerous occasions. That
“omnipresent” attribute suggested to the senator that God will thereby
automatically have knowledge of the action, and has therefore
requested that the court waive the “personal service” requirement. The
lawsuit says that God has caused
…fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes,
terrifying tornadoes, pestilential plagues, ferocious famines,
devastating droughts, genocidal wars, birth defects and the like
along with
…calamitous catastrophes resulting in the wide-spread death,
destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s
inhabitants including innocent babes, infants, children, the aged and
infirm without mercy or distinction.
Chambers asks for the court to grant him a summary judgment. He said
that as an alternative, he wants the judge to set a date for a hearing
as expeditiously as possible and enter a permanent injunction
enjoining God from engaging in the types of deleterious actions and
the making of terroristic threats he has described in the lawsuit.
The Omaha senator, who skips morning prayers during the legislative
session and often criticizes Christians, said that his lawsuit was
brought about by a federal suit filed against a judge who recently
barred words such as “rape” and “victim” from a sexual assault trial.
That’s perfectly understandable, since we wouldn’t want the facts to
be revealed to the jury… "
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