They don’t care about ACTUAL history. They’re trying to defend themselves by shifting any criticism onto “the original lawgiver,” and knowing full well that most Americans get their history from church (and bad TV in a close second), they invoke God as a shield to do whatever awful injustices make them erect that week
No they don’t. But they probably have the
rightwealth to get out of it with a fine that’s probably less than whatever interest is generated by their smallest savings account