Nebraska legislator sues God on terror charges
Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers has had enough of plagues, famines, droughts, hurricanes, and genocides. Chambers considers these incidents to be terrorists acts. To stop them, he’s suing the person responsible for them—God. Chambers, who before becoming a state legislator was a barber, filed a lawsuit last Friday in Nebraska’s Douglas County District Court, naming himself as the plaintiff ...
Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers has had enough of plagues, famines, droughts, hurricanes, and genocides. Chambers considers these incidents to be terrorists acts. To stop them, he's suing the person responsible for them—God.
Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers has had enough of plagues, famines, droughts, hurricanes, and genocides. Chambers considers these incidents to be terrorists acts. To stop them, he’s suing the person responsible for them—God.
Chambers, who before becoming a state legislator was a barber, filed a lawsuit last Friday in Nebraska’s Douglas County District Court, naming himself as the plaintiff and God as the defendant, a permanent injunction “ordering defendant to cease certain harmful activities and the making of terroristic threats.” Check out the suit here (pdf).
Some choice bits excerpted below:
God could not be reached for comment.
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