{"id":5428,"date":"2005-07-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/07\/30\/2005-07-30-north-carolina-state-courts-may-be-required-to-permit-oath-on-books-other-than-bible\/"},"modified":"2005-07-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-30T12:00:00","slug":"2005-07-30-north-carolina-state-courts-may-be-required-to-permit-oath-on-books-other-than-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/07\/30\/2005-07-30-north-carolina-state-courts-may-be-required-to-permit-oath-on-books-other-than-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina State Courts May Be Required To Permit Oath On Books Other Than Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thebostonchannel.com\/irresistible\/4774439\/detail.html\">www.thebostonchannel.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, US, July 27, 2005: The American Civil Liberties Union said witnesses in North Carolina courtrooms should be allowed to swear to tell the truth on scriptures other than the Bible. The ACLU has filed a lawsuit to permit oaths to be taken on the holy books of Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and other non-Christian faiths. Judges in Guilford County ruled recently that Muslims cannot legally take an oath on the Quran. State law allows witnesses to take their oath either by laying a hand over &#8220;Holy Scripture,&#8221; by saying &#8220;so help me God&#8221; without the use of a religious book or by using no religious symbols. The head of the North Carolina ACLU said, &#8220;We hope that the court will issue a ruling that the phrase &#8216;holy scripture&#8217; includes the Quran, Old Testament, and Bhagavad-Gita in addition to the Christian Bible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.thebostonchannel.com RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, US, July 27, 2005: The American Civil Liberties Union said witnesses in North Carolina courtrooms should,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}