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.
Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?
Doyle ,'Life of the Party'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - Mar 03, 2006 8:56:42 am PST #1208 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
§ 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?
le nubian - Mar 03, 2006 9:06:47 am PST #1214 of 10001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Our country has gone absolutely nucking futs.
Nutty - Mar 03, 2006 9:07:58 am PST #1215 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
You know that thing about DNFTEC online?
Same applies to twerps in state houses trying to get a little famous by doing something outrageous and silly.
Or, I suppose, I would totally feed that energy creature if he/she were streaking at college football games, or proposing compulsory forehead tattoos for people who serve in public office, but, when the silly isn't nice-silly, it's not worth getting your blood pressure up.
Dude will be laughed out of the state house, will get on Fox News, a bunch of blogs, and possibly Scarborough Country, will get a couple extra speaking engagements at the Scary Scary Retro Republicans convention, and may eventually run a medium-sized franchise of carwashes. Christians can cynically exploit the news cycle too!
bon bon - Mar 03, 2006 9:11:29 am PST #1216 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I wouldn't worry about the Supreme Court reversing the entire incorporation doctrine (where most of the Bill of Rights are applied to the states via the 14th Amendment). Moreover, I think it is exceptionally unlikely they'll do anything about the application of the 1st Amendment, which they did in the early 1940s.
Crazy state legislators proposing stupid bills are nothing new; have you met these people?
ETA: Or, what Nutty said as to the above. State legislators don't bother to learn the federal limits on state power.
le nubian - Mar 03, 2006 9:11:36 am PST #1217 of 10001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."