Republican North Carolina state legislators have proposed allowing an official state religion in a measure that would declare the state exempt from the Constitution and court rulings.
The bill, filed Monday by two GOP lawmakers from Rowan County and backed by nine other Republicans, says each state "is sovereign" and courts cannot block a state "from making laws respecting an establishment of religion." The legislation was filed in response to a lawsuit to stop county commissioners in Rowan County from opening meetings with a Christian prayer, wral.com reported.
The religion bill comes as some Republican-led states seek to separate themselves from the federal government, primarily on the issues of guns and Obamacare. This includes a proposal in Mississippi to establish a state board with the power to nullify federal laws.
I always like how the Republicans inflame their constituents by implying that President Obama and the Federal government are the ones not respecting the Constitution, but when it serves their needs they are the first to take a giant crap on it.
After all wasn't it George Bush who once said:
"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back. "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"
The ONLY reason that these assholes argue for freedom of religion is that they fear someday THEIR religion will be blocked from having an impact on government, and then they will no longer have the cudgel to use in order to drive through bills that undermine our freedoms and impose their faith base prejudices on this nation.
I have watched for decades as the Evangelicals have stacked the courts, the school boards, their city assemblies, and the federal government with religious zealots, all with the ultimate goal of driving out the influences of secularism and other religious faiths so that one day they can run this nation as they see fit.
As a theocracy.
It looks like North Carolina just got tired of waiting.
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