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Originally Posted by indigo
Right wing nutjobs trying to get re-elected mainly. School boards and local governments are losing lawsuits over prayer in public school functions and in governmental meetings so this is how they try to "get back" at us godless heathens who dared to speak up. .
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The sponsors say the issue really isn't so much to impose Christianity on the state as a whole, but to enable the county commissioners of Rowan County to continue to hold invocations before their weekly meetings that end with, "In Jesus name, Amen."
They've been told many times they can't do that, and the ACLU is threatening to take them to court. They know they'll lose, so they were trying to get around it with this crap. Unfortunately the bill, even if passed, would not trump federal law which is already well established on this issue. It was a DUMB idea from the get go.
Lord, the people in my state make my head hurt sometimes. There are a lot of people who've moved here (me among them) from more liberal states, and the ultra cons are getting out numbered . . . and they're quaking in their boots because power is slipping away from them, and they're no longer being indulged in their bigotry and exclusionary practices.
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Originally Posted by HYHYBT
It's been stopped. The House Speaker, I think it was, said there's no way he'll let this come to a vote.
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Thom Tillis. A complete and utter asshat. He would have let the bill come to a vote if it hadn't hit the news and caused an uproar. Killing it was simple self preservation on his part.