You may be injecting your personal values into this. To them, their sexuality is perfectly normal. Indeed, most societies do not have the sexual hangups that Christian/Islamic ones do. Not surprisingly, those are the places where you find the most blatant and perverse behaviors.

What is Chodorah?

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I agree with the first part. We have replaced the law of God or a King which was absolute with the malleable law of government. It gives the people the illusion of having a say in the system. Some do some don't.

I would argue that the Supreme Court is close in a sense, however the difference is that the Supreme Court is not absolute, its much more flexable.

Thats really one of the big differences between the law of God and of Government. Government at least in our form is flexable and does change. As some of the Muslim's are trying to practice Islam it is absolute and unchanging.

IMHO a flexable society gives people a chance to vent and changes with the times, and abolute one does not allow these blow off valves so it creates violence.

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Kerry (anybody?),

Is Turkey's system of laws more closely akin to European/Christian/Roman/Greek legal paradigm or a Middleastern/Muslim/Abrahamic paradigm?

Given that Justinian codified a legal system that predated Islam and had many generations to become infused in the people before the Islamification of Turkey, I would think theirs would be a peculiar Islamic-Greco-Roman formulation. Thus, they share roots back to Roman and Greek law as does Europe (and America).

I'm reaching here......


B

Lenny Bruce had an excellent piece on the origins of "laws" called "Eat, Sleep & Crap." I believe the recording is still available.

The clothing used to cover a women except for her eyes.

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Attaturk secularized Turkey after the Ottoman empire dissolved. I don't know the extent to which the Ottomon system was what you described and how much of it survived the transition. The answer to your question is one of the things I am interested in learning on this trip.

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Me too.

B

Kerry- I hope your taking your lap top with you....maybe we could set up a teleconference with the Forum?

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All I know is that I am happy not to have to wear a robe & powdered wig to work. Now if we can just reform this suit & tie thing, it'd be perfect.

Thongs & shorts.

Anybody remember thongs before undies?

B

Our Supreme Court is absolute in one sense: they have the final say on what the law is. The Supreme Court's interpretation of federal law is the final word on the subject. If people don't like their ruling, the only remedy is to amend the offending statute or Constitutional provision. That was the lesson of the Marbury v. Madison case in 1803.

Or do what the celebrated Andrew (No middle name) Jackson did and simply ignore the Supreme Court when he found it convenient to so. "John Marshall has made his law, now let him enforce it." By-bye Cherokee Nation.


B

This might help..
http://faculty.cua.edu/fischer/ComparativeLaw2002/collins/History%20of%20Turkey.htm

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Great link. Thank you.

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Yes i do but down south we also called them Zorries. Now in Miami they call them changlettas.

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