Can Missouri's resolution be challenged under our Constitution? I thought we were supposed to have a separation of church and state? How can the state (any state) acknowledge an official religion?
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le nubian - Mar 03, 2006 8:50:59 am PST #1204 of 10001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Nora Deirdre - Mar 03, 2006 8:52:56 am PST #1205 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
The resolution would recognize "a Christian god," and it would not protect minority religions, but "protect the majority's right to express their religious beliefs.
Again, vomit. These people have not one fucking bit of Christ's love flowing in their ugly, bitter veins. fuck them too.
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DavidS - Mar 03, 2006 8:53:57 am PST #1206 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
My sister wants my six-year-old to be her flower girl. The thing is, I have a little boy, not a girl.
I spoke to the woman who runs the bridal salon and she said she's seen this several times and if the boy doesn't mind, it's a lot of fun.
I have heard that this is uncommon, but does occur from time to time. Some sort of Little Lord Fauntleroy impulse run amok.
DavidS - Mar 03, 2006 8:54:27 am PST #1207 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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I wouldn't want to be Nora's blood pressure cuff today.
Gudanov - Mar 03, 2006 8:56:42 am PST #1208 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Can Missouri's resolution be challenged under our Constitution?
I'm sure it can, but it has to pass first. I don't know how much support this will actually have.
§ ita § - Mar 03, 2006 8:57:01 am PST #1209 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We started here within a month of each other. It's a really good move for them and I'm happy for her, but damnit.
My company is urging people to relocate, and so far I've already lost one chatting partner, and fear I'm to lose another.
The reason they want to move? So they can own property. I point out that the property won't be in California, and mostly they admit that's on the con side of the evaluation, but not enough.
Daisy Jane - Mar 03, 2006 8:58:16 am PST #1210 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
State bill proposes Christianity be Missouri’s official religion
but...establishment...religion...not...you....can't
'SPLODE!
amych - Mar 03, 2006 9:00:56 am PST #1211 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Can Missouri's resolution be challenged under our Constitution?
I suspect that's exactly what they're trying to test, given the new composition of the Supreme Court. The Constitution says that the Federal government can't establish a national church, but it doesn't actually say that individual states can't pick their own; the notion that the Consitution (and federal law, court decisions, etc) should also apply to the states only dates back to the civil war, and there are some pretty scary types out there who'd like to see that reversed. That way, they wouldn't have to worry about little things like civil rights, abortion protection....
(although, as Gud points out, who knows if it'll even pass...)
Nora Deirdre - Mar 03, 2006 9:01:06 am PST #1212 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I wouldn't want to be Nora's blood pressure cuff today.
No joke. Stupid... reality.
How did we get here?
TomW - Mar 03, 2006 9:01:14 am PST #1213 of 10001
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
I'm also pretty sure that recognition of a particular deity would fall afoul of Missouri's "Show Me" legislation.
Or did they not officially put that on the books?