MONTGOMERY, AL—Sparking a nationwide debate concerning the separation of church and state, Alabama Supreme Courtroom Chief Justice Tom Parker got here beneath fireplace this week for blatantly invoking VeggieTales in an official ruling. “Anyone up there may be actually upset with anyone down right here,” the choice learn partially, attributing the quote to Junior Asparagus in Jonah: A VeggieTales Film, a 2002 animated movie that brazenly knowledgeable the court docket’s ruling, which establishes in case regulation the Christian concept that life begins at pollination. “When Asparagus states, ‘You and God are like peas in a pod’ to Percy Pea, it’s indeniable proof that life can’t be wrongfully destroyed with out incurring the wrath of the Holy Cucumber. Further precedent for this ruling lies in season one, episode 22, when Bob the Tomato tries to deliver a promised son to life, just for a crew of zany French peas to get in the best way—peas who would now, beneath this regulation, be topic to prosecution. It’s this court docket’s opinion that even somebody as annoying as Laura Carrot deserves an opportunity at life.” At press time, defendants had appealed the choice to the U.S. Supreme Courtroom, citing the episode wherein Madame Blueberry traveled a number of gardens over to obtain an abortion for an unviable fetus.
