Amendment One...What Does It Do?

[TexasTowelie]

Alabama has a long and complicated history with the Ten Commandments from the Old Testament of the Bible. This election day, voters will decide if that relationship will continue as is.

When actor Charlton Heston delivered the Ten Commandments in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille movie classic, his Moses didn’t seem interested in politics. Two thousand years later, here in Alabama, things are different…

“I’ve been working on this off and on for about 14 years. I’ve passed it a number of times out of the legislature in the Senate, but it would die in the House.”

That is state senator Gerald Dial. He is the author of Senate Bill 181 that eventually became Amendment One on the upcoming ballot. This will allow the display of the Ten Commandments in a constitutional manner on public property. It’s just the latest legislative attempt to do so. Dial says the political climate is better…

Read more: http://www.apr.org/post/amendment-onewhat-does-it-do

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. interesting debate

It's a dumb amendment, but an interesting debate presented in the article.