For once, Nebraska news that doesn't make me cringe

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While I was in college, I made the unhappy discovery that almost every time Nebraska made the national news I found myself ashamed to admit I'd grown up there. The time that Lincoln's Catholic bishop issued a blanket excommunication to anyone who looked at a Planned Parenthood clinic sticks in my mind, but it was an all too common pattern.

So it was a very pleasant change to see this recent story: State Senator Ernie Chambers is suing God. I don't entirely understand the context (he's making some sort of statement about recent frivolous lawsuits), but the summary in the article above is hilarious (at least to an agnostic type like me). Some choice bits from the article:

The lawsuit admits God goes by all sorts of alias, names, titles and designations and it also recognizes the fact that the defendant is omnipresent.

In the lawsuit, Chambers said he's tried to contact God numerous times.

"Plaintiff, despite reasonable efforts to effectuate personal service upon defendant ('Come out, come out, wherever you are,') has been unable to do so,'" Chambers said.

So what is the lawsuit about?

The lawsuit accuses God "of making and continuing to make terroristic threats of grave harm to innumerable persons, including constituents of Plaintiff who Plaintiff has the duty to represent." It says God has caused "fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes, pestilential plagues, ferocious famines, devastating droughts, genocidal wars, birth defects and the like."

It's all pretty funny. (Thanks to Pharyngula for pointing this out.)

Comments

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

I liked the part where he's seeking an injunction against God. What does that *mean*? Can you imagine what the scope of it would be?