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Except that no governmental bodies (including the state legislature) can do away with people's Constitutional rights, except by a Constitutional amendment which is nearly impossible to enact in today's politics. Also you might want to bone up on the Establishment Clause of the Constitution and the jurisprudence thereunder.
Mick
You might want to bone up on the definition of establish.
We all know what the Establishment Clause is and the reasons behind it. The founders did not want an official religion for the US.
If they were afraid that having an "official book" be the Bible, I can guarantee you they wouldn't have been arguing over which Christian denomination would be leading them in prayer.
When they ordered the import of 20,000 Bibles to provide to the troops, do you think they had any clue the Bible was a religious book?
Let me guess, next you're going to bring up what is known as the Treaty of Tripoli. Yes, I'm familiar that when we were a fledgling nation trying to establish trade, we did tell the Muslim's that were wreaking havoc with piracy that we were not a Christian nation in hopes of keeping our ships and merchants out of harms way while we had no significant naval presence at all.
What on earth is the point of this sort of silliness?
The only outcome I can see is that it will make folks who are not Christians feel that the state favors Christians over them. What sort of good does this serve?
What on earth is the point of this sort of silliness?
The only outcome I can see is that it will make folks who are not Christians feel that the state favors Christians over them. What sort of good does this serve?
And if not for the press coverage, probably nobody in Tennessee would have even known.
I live in Tennessee and I'm an atheist.
I don't care about the Bible being the state book.
I realize it may be a slippery slope regarding the separation of church and state, but I can't bring myself to give a **** about it either way. It has zero impact on my daily life. The only problem I can really see with it is that while they're wasting time on nonsense like a "state book", they aren't addressing vastly more important issues.
Of course this has been all over the local news recently, and I seem to remember them mentioning a similar bill being proposed in Louisiana last year, though I'm not sure if it ever passed.
I give zero ***** as well NicoDog! I've been in Tennessee now for 2 years. Officiating a book a tales is the last thing Tennessee should be broadcasting.
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I second that emotion
