North Carolina May Declare Official State Religion Under New Bill

[wardd]

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.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/03/north-carolina-religion-bill_n_3003401.html

[bogdog]

Re: North Carolina May Declare Official State Religion Under New Bill

Good Heavens!

[hanleyclifford]

Re: North Carolina May Declare Official State Religion Under New Bill

But as has been asked elsewhere, which one? Sects of Christendom multiply like rabbits, as it were.

[Cuyahoga Chuck]

Re: North Carolina May Declare Official State Religion Under New Bill

Nobody ever said North Carolinians are understanding of the US Constitution even tho' they claim to be adherents to it.
In the beginning our constitution allowed states to sponser one religion while the federal government was prohibited. That lasted some decades but was was outlawed by some later amendments. The federal courts will knock their idea down post haste and I don't think the Supreme would bother to touch it.

[Ian McColgin]

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Those jackles don't even understand their own state constitution. If they could read and think, I'd commend to their attention Article 1, sections 5 and 13.

[wardd]

Re: North Carolina May Declare Official State Religion Under New Bill

Nobody ever said North Carolinians are understanding of the US Constitution even tho' they claim to be adherents to it.
In the beginning our constitution allowed states to sponser one religion. That lasted some decades but was was outlawed by some later amendments. The federal courts will knock their idea down post haste and I don't think the Supreme would bother to touch it.

it's not that the courts would let it stand, it's that there are such idiots that push this kind of nonsense

[Keith Wilson]

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Oh, be kind now. North Carolina was once seriously southern, much less so now. I went to high school in Durham when it was a sleepy little southern city with a university and no good restaurants, and lordy, have things ever changed! OTOH there's now an ENORMOUS rural-urban divide. The cities have gotten more like cities, and the conservatives in the countryside have gotten more conservative as the US right has radicalized over the past 20 years. Rowan County is in the middle of nowhere halfway between Greensboro and Charlotte, and the biggest town is Salisbury, population 33,000.

This spectacularly stupid bill will never pass, and it would get summarily shi!tcanned by any court that looked at it. OTOH, the truly amazing thing is not that there's somebody mad enough to introduce it, but that it got nine co-sponsors.

Article 1, Section 5 of the NC state constitution:

Sec. 5. Allegiance to the United States.

Every citizen of this State owes paramount allegiance to the Constitution and government of the United States, and no law or ordinance of the State in contravention or subversion thereof can have any binding force.