Show me the commandment which says, just for one example, 'Thou shall not smoke marijuana'.

Just curious.

Earth to KH - No, it isn't.

Only three of the 10 Commandments are even laws. Four if you live somewhere that still prosecutes adultery.

How do people with such a tenuous grasp on both law and reality get elected?

Stoning of adulterers is biblical enough and, if we made it law of the land, we could eliminate half of our "do nothing congress" in a weekend.

As for the first poster, some would interpret Genesis 1:29 as saying that only CAN we smoke the herb but, in fact, we SHOULD be smoking the herb.

... and it tends to come from the mouths of folks who can't even name the commandments.

Fine. You think the following list is the basis of the U.S. legal system:

1) "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and fourth generation of those who reject me, but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments."

-- Not illegal

2) "You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not acquit anyone who misuses his name."

-- Not illegal

3) "Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God; you shall not do any work—you, or your son or your daughter, or your male or female slave, or your ox or your donkey, or any of your livestock, or the resident alien in your towns, so that your male and female slave may rest as well as you. Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day."

-- Not illegal

4) "Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you."

-- Not illegal

5*) "You shall not murder."

-- Illegal, though it's interesting that this has no asterisks attached to it, where U.S. law does. Where'd the notion of "justifiable homicide" come from?

6) "Neither shall you commit adultery."

-- Not illegal

7*) "Neither shall you steal."

-- Illegal

8*) "Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor."

-- Illegal, though rarely prosecuted

9) "Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife."

-- Not illegal

10) "Neither shall you desire your neighbor's house, or field, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."

-- Not only is this not illegal, it's the basis of our economic system

So out of 10 commandments, only three (*) are codified in U.S. law -- and one of those isn't as cut and dried as the commandment states. How does 33% = basis for U.S. law?

Ms. Harris pegs the origin of our laws on the Ten Commandments?

Why of course she does...She's a Judeo-Christian believer who doesn't remember learning about all of the lawgivers, human and divine, before Moses.

However, there are those of us (who even went to church school) who remember learning about Hammurabbi and his laws (~1780 BCE...that's almost 150 years before Moses' biblical birth, Ms. Harris...); about the Chinese emperors and their laws; about Asoka, the Buddhist emperor of India and his laws; about Solon the Athenian Lawmaker, the Twelve Tables of Roman Law, the Laws of Manu in India, Egyptian and African Law and so on...

None of these venerable bodies of Law can be seriously said to have arisen out of Mosaic Law; indeed, some of them pre-date and have demonstable influence on the ancient Hebrew laws and traditions. And what is more to the point is that our laws here in the good ole US of A have roots in many of these traditions. Yes, Judeo-Christian tradition is an important part of our culture here in the USA; But there are other, equally important parts that should not, must not, cannot be surpressed or ignored.

Ignorance such as that of Ms. Harris is frightening. Is it just plain dumb ignorance? Or is it deliberate? If it is deliberate, it verges on lying... Who can find out?

what "gonnabechef" said.

Just want to add that the three commandments that do translate into enforceable US laws were part of the laws of most civilizations long before Moses went up the mountain. (If he did.)

The woman is not only dumb as a post, she is is crassly ignorant.

Can we just call her Fredo? She pulled some strings back in the day after sweet-nothings of a successful Senatorial campaign with full support of the President were whispered into her ear and now we're watching the sad deflation of those Senatorial dreams. If she wasn't such a fool (and I use that term seriously) and had the slightest idea of how to be a real political player instead of a political hustle which is what it looks like, she could have had at least a chance of winning.

Her actions are all obviously politically motivated - you can almost hear her have the idea of wanting to attract Christian voters by giving an interview like that - but the shear ineptitude in execution does nothing to attract anybody to anything except to watch the political train wreck. We watch and we think, "Just how far will she denigrate herself and subject herself to obvious mockery before she goes away?"

I mean, nobody is even angry about this right? This doesn't make you want to go picket her next rally does it? Nobody's demanding that the record be set straight with a straight face are they? Instead we all sit and we watch and we laugh at the poor stooge who couldn't.

She's Fredo.

And that gunshot you just heard? That's her political aspirations lying face down in a row boat.