State bill proposes Christianity be Missouri’s official religion
Somehow I think the following statement ought to preface this report:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" Anybody know that one? Know the source? Sounds reasonable enough.
Missouri legislators in Jefferson City considered a bill that would name Christianity the state's official "majority" religion. House Concurrent Resolution 13 has is pending in the state legislature. Many Missouri residents had not heard about the bill until Thursday.
Karen Aroesty of the Anti-defamation league, along with other watch-groups, began a letter writing and email campaign to stop the resolution. The resolution would recognize "a Christian god," and it would not protect minority religions, but "protect the majority's right to express their religious beliefs. The resolution also recognizes that, "a greater power exists," and only Christianity receives what the resolution calls, "justified recognition."
State representative David Sater of Cassville in southwestern Missouri, sponsored the resolution, but he has refused to talk about it on camera or over the phone. Governor Matt Blunt's office has yet to respond regarding where he stands on the resolution.
Is this why conservatives are in favor of "state's rights"? Do the same laws and principles that aplly to the US congress not apply to the state congresses as well? Is the "state's rights" platform merely another tool to chip away at the bedrock principles that our union was founded upon. Me thinks so.
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