Sunday, May 3, 2009

Silly Suing

I sometimes write about silly law suits and the seemingly many lawyers who are pitifully morally blank. Well, I may have the classic example of the frivolous law suit. See what you think. The suit filed in Rome is whether the Catholic Church may be breaking the law by teaching that Jesus existed.
Yep! Someone is suing because he claims the existence of Jesus is a lie that causes grievous damage to believers. And the case puts two men from the same town, once in the same religious seminary. One became a priest the, other a non believer. What is not "believable" to me is why a the Italian court is willing to hear such a lawsuit.
The defendant, Enrico Righi, in the suit is a priest who writes for the parish newspaper, the plaintiff, Luigi Cascioli, the one who left the seminary when studying with Enrico, and became an avowed atheist. And Luigi says he is serious about the suit. "I started the lawsuit because I wanted to deal the final blow against the Church, the bearer of obscurantism and regression." Luigi says that Enrico and his Catholic Church brethren broke two laws when referring to jesus. The first is the Abuse of Popular Belief law, meant to protect people against being cheated or conned. The second crime is that Enrico and the Church are guilty of Impersonation. in that he claims the Church constructed Jesus as apolitical tactic to gain control and power. Enrico says he has plenty of proof that Jesus did exist, which he will present in court to prove that Jesus was in fact real. Any comments?
Beware of talking parrots, at least if you are trying to hide your sexual affair from a spouse or lover. That's the lesson to learn from the case of the indiscreet parrot, a chatty bird in London who is being blamed for the break-up of a couple's relationship after he squawked the name of the woman's secret lover.
Yep! It's all the fault of Ziggy, an eight year old African parrot, who blurted out "Gary, I love you" in front of the lady's husband. Given that parrots don't have relationships like that the hubby figured he must have repeated what girlfriend Suzy Taylor has said earlier to her lover. I fact, the bird previously uttered "Hiya, Gary" when Suzy's phone rang. But when Chris was snuggling Suzie on the sofa one night the bird dodo hit the ceiling. "We were watching TV when Ziggy blurted out, 'I love you, Gary' in Suzy's voice", said Chris. "I started laughing but when I looked at Suzy, I could tell something was wrong. Her face was barefoot and she started to cry," he related.
Well, Suzy told Gray it was true, she wanted out of their relationship, that she was "flying" away from him forever. Suzi then left Gary and Ziggy. But wait! This loss was not the only one for Gary. Already losing Suzie, Gary decided to give away chatty Ziggy. "I couldn't get him to stop saying that bloody name- what else could I do?:, he said.

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