Need To Get Out Of Jury Duty?

[mrfootball]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5444317.html

Newest revelation in Chuck Rosenthal's "email-gate" reveals that they regularly tossed potential jurors if they said they attended Lakewood Church.

Per Rosenthal "Screwballs and Nuts" attend Lakewood church.

[rapturematt]

I thought Assistant DA Kelly Siegler said that?

[MidtownCoog]

She did. I'm loving it!

[TJones]

Oy Vey !

[Vertigo58]

Heard this morning on News 11, cracked me up!

[ricco67]

I can't believe she would put them in the same class of Tin Foil hat people.

Maybe they're too happy for her taste?

Maybe she needs some happy blue pills.

[cottonmather0]

At the risk of getting some tomatoes thrown, I kind of see her point. Most people who go to that church are indeed a little bit weird.

Maybe it's a Methodist thing.

[ricco67]

I might toss one at you.

Unless you're worshiping the corpse of an alien and waiting for a spaceship (one group already disbanded several year back with a kool-aid drink), then I believe all churches a pass and religion shouldn't come into play, unless they don't believe in the Death Penalty.

[Vertigo58]

How can we forget Bo and Peep? The mysterious two.

Gotta love the guy. Even funnier is he worked at Jones Hall for a short time. Wait, where's my Nike's?

[MidtownCoog]

Attorneys don't have to cite a reason for not wanting you on a jury. "I don't like him" is reason enough.

Do these Lakewood people wear name tags? Does the Asst DA ask if you go to church?

I burn all my jury summons so I would not know ;-)

[rapturematt]

Regardless, I think it is ridicules that someone in that position would ever say something like that. I thought it was supposed to be a jury of your peers. What if the accused went to Lakewood or committed a crime against a Lakewood member?

I have been to Lakewood and love all of the music that their worship leader, Isreal Houghton, writes. Even though I would not call it my home church, I would never say they are weird.

To be honest, it just kinda freaked me out that I was going to church in the "Summit".

[cottonmather0]

I might toss one at you.

Unless you're worshiping the corpse of an alien and waiting for a spaceship (one group already disbanded several year back with a kool-aid drink), then I believe all churches a pass and religion shouldn't come into play, unless they don't believe in the Death Penalty.

True, although I don't think it's necessarily a question of the church beliefs themselves. Rather, it's the personalities that Lakewood attracts. I think that's what the comment at hand was referring to.