Nebraska woman claiming to represent God files federal lawsuit against all ‘homosexuals’

[DonViejo]

Sylvia Driskell, a 66-year-old woman in Nebraska, has filed a lawsuit against all people who identify as LGBT, the Omaha World-Herald reports. In a case filed on May 1 with the district court in Omaha, called, “Driskell v. Homosexuals,” Driskell identifed herself as an ambassador for “God, And His, Son, Jesus Christ” as the plaintiff. The defendants? “Homosexuals; Their Given Name Homosexuals; Their, (alias) Gay.”

Driskell is representing herself in the case she wrote out by hand on lined notebook paper. Her challenge: “Petition Your Honor and Court of the United States District Court of Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska. To be heard in the in the matter of homosexuality. Is Homosexuality a sin, or not a sin.”

A few standout quotes from Driskell’s curiously punctuated, grammatically unconventional, Bible verse-intensive lawsuit against gay people:

* “The Homosexual’s say that its not a sin to be a homosexual; An they have the right to marry; to be parents, And God doesn’t care that their homosexuals; because He loves them.”

* “Your Honor; I’ve hear the boasting of the Defendant: the Homosexuals on the world news; from the Young, to the Old; to the rich An famous; and to the not so rich An famous; How they were tired of hiding in the closet, and how glad they are coming out of the closet.”

* “Ambassador: I Sylvia Ann Driskell; Contented that homosexuality is a sin, And that they the homosexuals know it is a sin to live a life of homosexuality. Why else would they have been hiding in a closet.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/nebraska-woman-claiming-to-represent-god-files-federal-lawsuit-against-all-homosexuals/

[AuntPatsy]

1. Please tell me this began from an article found on the Onion

[DonViejo]

2. Wish I could do that for you, AuntPatsy.

[Omaha Steve]

23. The things I could tell you about Nebraskan's...

Lets not go there.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

3. why does God need a starship?

any time I see one doing something to 'defend' God or act on God's behalf, this lovely quote from Star Trek lore comes to mind.

sP

[Volaris]

13. L O L YES THAT Exactly that.

One of the better delivered lines from the Kirkunit, indeed.

AND, if God thought god needed a lawyer, something tells me god would hire someone who could
A) TYPE, and
B) spell correctly

in other words, if God DID need a starship, God would hire Voyager, end of discussion .

[Sparhawk60]

22. You Beat Me To It!

I was going to ask "why does God need a lawsuit?" If God hates homosexuals, he can smite them. As for me, God's Son commanded me to love every one the way he loved me. So I kinda have to love them all.

[LibertyLover]

37. I want to know what the Holy Spirit

thinks about the lawsuit, since He/She/It is apparently not being represented by Ambassador Driskell.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

4. But all the best lawyers are in Hell.

[Ms. Toad]

18. .

[hobbit709]

25. Here you go.

Engineering In Hell

An engineer dies and reports to the pearly gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says, "Ah, you're an engineer -- you're in the wrong place."

So, the engineer reports to the gates of hell and is let in. Pretty soon, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and starts designing and building improvements. After awhile,
they've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and the engineer is a pretty popular guy.

One day, God calls Satan up on the telephone and says with a sneer, "So, how's it going down there in hell?"

Satan replies, "Hey, things are going great. We've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and there's no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next."

God replies, "What??? You've got an engineer? That's a mistake -- he should never have gotten down there; send him up here."

Satan says, "No way." I like having an engineer on the staff, and I'm keeping him."

God says, "Send him back up here or I'll sue."

Satan laughs uproariously and answers, "Yeah, right. And just where are YOU going to get a lawyer?"

[madaboutharry]

5. I think there is actually a disorder

called religious psychosis.

[jwirr]

17. If she was in a mental institution she would be claiming she was God.

[3catwoman3]

6. Oh, Lawd have mercy!

I hope this gets thrown out of court. If a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client, what does a non-lawyer have? whatever it is, at least she has appropriate representation.

[3catwoman3]

7. I forgot to ask...

...just what she hopes to accomplish with this nonsense? Is she expecting a personal thank you from Gawd?

[Kelvin Mace]

8. She seems to think

she will get homosexuality declared illegal.

[Ms. Toad]

19. She actually doesn't ask for anything

unless I just skimmed too quickly.

[jberryhill]

32. Maybe the retainer check bounced

[Ms. Toad]

36. Of course, one of us defendants could file a motion to dismiss

for lack of diversity and put it out of its misery. There has to be at least one homosexual in Nebraska . . . I can't have been the only one.

[Yorktown]

9. I agree if she also sues people who are left handed

I think being left handed is a rebellion against the will of God who made man righthanded.

[mindwalker_i]

10. If homosexuality is a sin

The Fourier transform of it is a single spike of ignorance.

[Lancero]

11. ...Oh god, it's not from The Onion.

[oldandhappy]

12. What happened

to love your neighbor??!! ha ha

[icymist]

14. This is an example of repressed homosexual tendencies.

Society in Nebraska would not let poor Sylvia Driskell to live the open homosexual life she wanted so, instead, she picks up rocks to throw at those who were brave enough to come out. If these are the people who follow Jesus, then I say, "Jesus, save me from your people"!

[Ms. Toad]

20. Please don't go there.

Not every dysfunctional person who rants and rails at gays is a repressed homosexual, and it's kind of insulting to have it keep popping up.

[jmowreader]

15. This case is missing a few things

Besides sanity. We know it's missing that.

Any good case has to explain two things: how the defendants' actions harmed the plaintiff's rights, and what relief the plaintiff seeks.

Since the plaintiff has no right under any law to not have her feelings hurt, she has no Injury, and she has no constitutional Relief because her demand is to have homosexuality declared either a Sin or a Not-Sin - and since Sin is a religious construct finding either way would be a government endorsement of religion in violation of the First Amendment.

OTOH if gay guys are having sex on her front porch and she doesn't want them to do that she would have an injury, but the simple existence of gay people is treading on her delicate sensitivities and the courts don't care about things like that.

[spanone]

16. why would god hate what he created, ma'am?

[olddots]

21. can I sue her for being a fecal sculpture ?

[Ms. Toad]

35. As this lawsuit illustrates,

You can sue anyone for just about anything...don't expect to win, though.

[Omaha Steve]

24. The Bill Press Show just covered this on the news break

Love his show.

[LiberalElite]

26. I saw this in

another post - she has really childish handwriting. I haven't seen handwriting like hers since 4th grade. I do wonder what that means about her.

[JHB]

27. She's petitioning a judge to rule whether homosexuality is a sin...

Exactly how is that "keeping government out of religion"?

[leftynyc]

28. Huh?

And even if it is a sin, what does that have to do with our laws which are not based on the bible? What injury has she sustained by the existence of gays (asking what standing she has to even bring the case)? How does this not get laughed out of court?

[gollygee]

29. This seems like a perfect example of "using the lord's name in vain"

which as I understand it isn't about saying "God Damn" or something, but is about claiming you speak for God.

[tanyev]

30. If it bothers her that much, shouldn't she be suing God for creating them?

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

34. If the county court accepts the suit...

...she could petition for a change of venue.

http://www.dc4dc.com/

[Vinca]

31. So what happens when the defendants try to call witnesses?

How does one get a subpoena to God?

[csziggy]

33. Rawstory should have removed their standard disclaimer at the bottom

Considering the "curiously punctuated, grammatically unconventional" parts of the lawsuit they quote, they should have omitted their disclaimer:
Report typos and corrections to [e-mail]

I hope this woman has someone other than "God" to watch out for her and take care of her. She seems to have a tenuous hold on reality.

[lapislzi]

38. Your tax dollars at work.

Even if the court were to entertain this idiocy long enough to point out that courts rule on law, not sin, the point would be utterly lost on her. She would then declare that US courts are satanic, or some other lunacy.

What a waste.