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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.
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.
State bill proposes Christianity be Missouri’s official religion
but...establishment...religion...not...you....can't
'SPLODE!
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...)
I wouldn't want to be Nora's blood pressure cuff today.
No joke. Stupid... reality.
How did we get here?
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?
Our country has gone absolutely nucking futs.
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!
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.
That's brilliant, LeN.
Looks like my boss is keeping me working right up until I leave for my nerve block. Which is in fifteen minutes. Leaving. Not the nerve block. That's at 1pm board time.