North Carolina May Declare Official State Religion Under New Bill
The Huffington Post | By John Celock
Posted: 04/03/2013 12:22 am EDT | Updated: 04/03/2013 9:20 am EDT
North Carolina state Rep. Carl Ford backs a religion bill that would allow the state to declare an official state faith.
Republican North Carolina state legislators have proposed allowing an official state religion in a measure that would declare the state exempt from the Constitution and court rulings.
The bill, filed Monday by two GOP lawmakers from Rowan County and backed by nine other Republicans, says each state "is sovereign" and courts cannot block a state "from making laws respecting an establishment of religion." The legislation was filed in response to a lawsuit to stop county commissioners in Rowan County from opening meetings with a Christian prayer, wral.com reported.
The religion bill comes as some Republican-led states seek to separate themselves from the federal government, primarily on the issues of guns and Obamacare. This includes a proposal in Mississippi to establish a state board with the power to nullify federal laws.
The North Carolina bill's main sponsors, state Reps. Carl Ford (R-China Grove) and Harry Warren (R-Salisbury), could not be reached for comment on Tuesday, The Salisbury Post reported. Co-sponsors include House Majority Leader Edgar Starnes (R-Hickory). Another is state Rep. Larry Pittman (R-Concord), who in February introduced a state constitutional amendment that would allow for carrying concealed weapons to fight federal "tyranny."
The bill says the First Amendment only applies to the federal government and does not stop state governments, local governments and school districts from adopting measures that defy the Constitution. The legislation also says that the Tenth Amendment, which says powers not reserved for the federal government belong to the states, prohibits court rulings that would seek to apply the First Amendment to state and local officials.
SECTION 1. The North Carolina General Assembly asserts that the Constitution of the United States of America does not prohibit states or their subsidiaries from making laws respecting an establishment of religion.SECTION 2. The North Carolina General Assembly does not recognize federal court rulings which prohibit and otherwise regulate the State of North Carolina, its public schools, or any political subdivisions of the State from making laws respecting an establishment of religion.
The North Carolina state constitution ALREADY disqualifies those who do not believe in God from public office. The provision has been unenforcible since the 1961 Supreme Court decision in Torcaso v. Watkins, which prohibited such bans.
Still, North Carolinians (BOTH Democrats and Republicans), have been PROUD to leave this on the Constitution. And I MUST SAY i am GLAD these people are finally BEING HONEST that they want North Carolina to OPENLY be a Legal Society of Evangelical Christians who ALWAYS demonstrate Jesus's NUTSHELLED PRINCIPLES:
Matthew 22:36-40
New International Version (NIV)
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
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>>> LOOK -- I'M AN OVERNIGHT SENSATION (Comment-wise) !!!:
From here at very bottom: http://scottkenan.blogspot.mx/2013/04/stand-off-in-north-carolina-one-day-only.html .
2 comments:
- Scott Kenansaid...
- You remind me of the guy that killed all those kids in Newtown but crazier...
- April 2, 2013 at 8:47 PM
- Scott Kenansaid...
- The only other Scott Kenan in the USA besides me is Scott C. Kenan of Cincinnati -- and as I've mentioned, he is only 6' 10" - and inch shorter than me. He owns the ONLINE ONLY Carolina Copperheads fantasy baseball team which he somehow makes a living from. He ALWAYS refuses to interact with me, and has BLOCKED my emails since right after I first emailed him.
Are you he???
As to your comment, I totally agree with you that I'm "crazy" -- I often describe myself that way, but it's a POOR descriptor since it has no legal or even generally AGREED UPON meaning, and is used as a positive as well as negative comment.
So if you could PLEASE, first, state clearly if you ARE Scott C. Kenan of Cincinnati, and then explain yourself further so we can ALL make some sense of your comparing me to a mass murderer.
I have never even OWNED a gun (although I've had lessons in rifle shooting). My only experience with EXPLOSIVES was with firecrackers when I was a kid. My knives (and I own some GOOD ONES), remain in the kitchen. While I've NEVER picked up a knife to threaten or even defend myself, two months ago, a RELEASED BY THE CIA former teen-aged BODY DISMEMBERER from New York City who now lives in Puerto Vallarta PROTECTING NARCO-TRAFFICKING for Rahm Emanuel's and Barack Obama's CHICAGO DRUG MAFIA (although he's a native od Colombia and associated with the Cali Cartel THERE and the SonKings Drug Mafia on NYC, "Sonny" or Jimmy Humberto Montaño Prieto, actually DID beat me in my kitchen and picked up one of my kitchen knives which he held up next to my throat to threaten me to write GOOD things about the Republican Party/CIA narco-traffickers here in Mexico.
It failed to work.
So PLEASE come out of your HOLE of hiding behind my name, identify yourself, and elaborate on your comment so we can ALL make some sense of what you MEAN. Your typing was INADEQUATE!!!
Thanks,
Scott David Kenan (owner of this blog)
Scott R. Kenan of Cincinatti, Ohio (I was previously in error on his middle initial).
Scott R. Kenan's house at 627 Genenbill Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45238-4710