[UPDATE: After getting a lot of blowback, this bill has been pulled. However, the GOP-controlled North Carolina state government is not done making up unconstitutional legislation. See the next post.]
I used to think that North Carolina was a bastion of semi-liberalism in a sea of Southern conservative states. Now I'm really beginning to wonder. When new Republican Governor Pat McCrory got rid of the Latino outreach group (such a great idea right now, McCrory) I had a hint that things were leaning too far right. But I would have never expected this.
Republican state legislators have proposed an official state religion. No, I'm not kidding! I do seem to remember that the Pilgrims came here in order to avoid such a thing, and that our Constitution prohibits it, but nonetheless the idiots in Raleigh, namely Rep. Carl Ford of China Grove and Harry Warren of Salisbury have put together a bill to create this "official state religion". According to them, states can exempt themselves from the parts of the Constitution they don't like and create their own laws.
Kind of like seceding from the Union, without all the bullets and gunpowder.
Co-sponsors are House Majority Leader (!) Edgar Starnes of Hickory and Rep. Larry Pittman of Concord.
North Carolinians, these are the folks you need to vote the hell out of office at the earliest opportunity, along with anybody else with an "R" after their name.
The Republican Party needs to go the way of the Dodo bird if this is what they stand for. I really think that religion (and possibly Rush Limbaugh) has twisted their minds to the point that they no longer make any logical sense whatsoever. It really is just mind-boggling what they come up with these days.
