North Carolina state Tea Party Republican lawmakers have filed a bill to allow the state to establish an official state religion. The move is a direct assault on the U.S. Constitution and wholly ignores the Fourteenth Amendment. The two sponsors of the bill, freshmen House Representatives Harry Warren and Carl Ford, have already managed to get nine co-sponsors who conveniently have ignored the fact that Rep. Ford’s full-time job: the owner of two North Carolina Gospel music radio stations.
The bill claims “each state in the union is sovereign and may independently determine how that state may make laws respecting an establishment of religion,” and mentions the Tenth Amendment three times. It also argues First Amendment “prohibition does not apply to states, municipalities, or schools.”
Article 6 Section 8 of the North Carolina state constitution reads:
The following persons shall be disqualified for office: First, any person who shall deny the being of Almighty God.
Why is it that those who proclaim the loudest their desire to protect the Constitution are those who seem never to have even seen a copy of it?
If they had they might have stumbled across this:
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
Who elects these idiots?
The Founding Fathers went WELL out of their way to make sure that this nation would not be a theocracy, and yet these religious nutbags have been attempting to undermine that or hundreds of years now.
