Mississippi Tea Baggers Declare Christianity Official State Religion.

[TheMastersNemesis]

Only in Mississippi. Tea Baggers there plan to put up a constitutional amendment that declares Christianity the official religion of the state of Mississippi in 2016. They claim that such a claim goes back to the founding of the state itself. Will they also try to legalize slavery again?

[SomethingFishy]

1. 25 years ago I would have laughed and said that

the courts would shoot that thing down like a slow duck..

These days the Constitution doesn't seem to mean much to Republicans who, without a hint of irony, are claiming Obama is shredding it...

[CanonRay]

14. I don't trust Scalia enough to think he'd vote this down

We have too many religious wackos on the SCOTUS

[AlinPA]

16. US Supreme Court would approve it with its GOP judges 5-4.

[Brother Buzz]

2. Proposed amendment seeks to make Christianity Mississippi's official religion

Proposed amendment seeks to make Christianity Mississippi's official religion

OXFORD, MS (WMC) - A new ballot initiative in Mississippi may give voters the right to proclaim Christianity as the state's religion, make English the official language, and ‘Dixie' the state's song.

Members of the Magnolia State Heritage Campaign are seeking signatures to allow voters to decide whether or not to pass the proposed changes.

According to the group's website, Initiative 46 would ‘amend the Constitution to restrict or define Mississippi's heritage in the following areas: religion, official language, state flag, nickname, song, motto, and state university mascots.'

Mississippi law allows citizens to propose constitutional amendments.

Petitioners must file paperwork with the offices of the Secretary of State and Attorney General.

Groups must obtain more than 107,000 signatures to get the initiative on the ballot.

http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/story/27428949/proposed-amendment-seeks-to-make-christianity-mississippis-official-religion

[TheMastersNemesis]

3. Thanks - I Did Not Realize It Was So Extensive. Saw Info On Huff Post.

They will have little trouble getting sigs. And I bet it will pass easily. Mississippi probably the most stupid and racist state in the nation.

[Brother Buzz]

9. Can you say a symbolic gesture to placate the idiot change jinglers?

Yes it could happen, but at the end of the day, it's all bark and no bite; something about the supremacy clause of the US constitution, I think.

[AlinPA]

18. It will be passed easily there and would probably make it through the Mississippi courts.

[FiveGoodMen]

13. Forget ISIS -- we should be at war with THESE ... ... "people"

[muntrv]

4. I'll support this if they make Bishop Gene Robinson of NH the state religion commissioner!

[underpants]

5. Damn!

I have good money on Sharia to win Judaism to place and I have Christianity to show.

[shenmue]

6. I wouldn't put it past them

That's what they did last time.

[MohRokTah]

7. The Spirit of the Taliban lives on in the state of Mississippi.

[hobbit709]

8. Just when you think TX is about the stupidest state, along comes somebody else.

JuanitaJean has some good comments
http://www.juanitajean.com/2014/11/19/thank-god-for-mississippi/

[msongs]

10. white = official race, poor = official economic status, sick = official health status etc nt

[stevenleser]

11. It would be interesting if they started practicing what it actually calls for.

Particularly, the non-violence turn the other cheek and not being rich because its harder for a rich man to enter heaven then for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle stuff.

[olddots]

12. they should have a new state bird

The Speckled Ignoramus

[AlinPA]

15. It will pass and all the red states will follow. A Supreme Court challenge will end up 5-4 approval

delighting the GOP.

[Kingofalldems]

17. Confederate Civil War fighters.

Effing traitors still at it.