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?
Mal: You want to tell me how come there's a statue of you here looking at me like I owe him something? Jayne: Wishing I could, Captain.
'Jaynestown'
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.
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."
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."
§ ita § - Mar 03, 2006 9:15:19 am PST #1218 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Fred Pete - Mar 03, 2006 9:15:19 am PST #1219 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
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
Not true. The Fourteenth Amendment applies the Bill of Rights, including the First Amendment, to the states. Thus:
First Amendment (partial text) -- Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
Fourteenth Amendment (partial text) -- No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Gudanov - Mar 03, 2006 9:17:17 am PST #1220 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
I suspect this guy will get some support from the hardcore God & Guns parts of the state, but I don't think there is any worry about it actually passing. Missouri isn't that crazy overall.
Lee - Mar 03, 2006 9:17:52 am PST #1221 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Good luck with the nerve block, and the hamburgers, ita.
Nora Deirdre - Mar 03, 2006 9:18:35 am PST #1222 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Crazy state legislators proposing stupid bills are nothing new; have you met these people?
You and Nutty are right. My sense of perspective has just gotten ground down in recent days/weeks, and I get so easily 'splodey.
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Must work on that or I won't last much longer!