Tennessee House approves bill to make Bible official state book
Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Tennessee state legislators on Wednesday advanced a bill to make the Bible the official state book, a measure the state attorney general said would be unconstitutional and Republican Governor Bill Haslam has called disrespectful.
The Republican-controlled state House of Representatives voted 55-38 to approve the Bible as state book. A companion bill could be considered as soon as Thursday in the state Senate, where Republicans hold 28 seats to five for Democrats.
Representative Bud Hulsey, a Republican, told colleagues in support of the bill it is worth the fight "now more than ever."
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/tennessee-house-approves-bill-bible-official-state-book-190243532.html
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)good to know that Tennessee has solved all of the more pressing issues.
bvf
(6,604 posts)(I stole that line but forget who said it, sorry.)
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)and so evident.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)with different wordings. Check out this link if you wish to read more:
http://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/4449/how-many-bibles-not-translations-are-there
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)jmowreader
(50,563 posts)Many fundies believe reading anything but the KJV will consign you to hell.
LibertyLover
(4,788 posts)because James I of England (and VI of Scotland) was a homosexual and they don't want to be sullied by that fact.
jmowreader
(50,563 posts)There are two schools of thought on this one.
The KJV Only people will tell you James' wife and children, which he undisputably had, were proof he couldn't have been gay. They will condemn you to hell for even thinking James was anything but 100 percent heterosexual.
The rest of us know the most important job any king has is to produce the next king; therefore, James essentially closed his eyes and thought of England when he was performing what to him must have been the most repulsive act of his reign.
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)Pharaoh
(8,209 posts)its now getting to be like the Taliban and Isis around here!
diabeticman
(3,121 posts)diabeticman
(3,121 posts)Have the republicans forgotten the Separation of church and state
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)There is a Courthouse and a Church house. See, separation.
diabeticman
(3,121 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)and begrudge it in every way.
(I lived in Mississippi for a few years, and the medieval hysteria running amok among many Southern right-wingers just can't be overstated)
RandySF
(59,264 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)borders on an attempt to overthrow the US government.
dballance
(5,756 posts)I had to get out of there. Now I live in Portland, Oregon. The least religious city in the U.S.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)I have a wonderful friend in Corvallis which Wiki lists as the least religious. Portland, being filled with almost the same percentage of us heathens, would be better for me since I like larger cities.
Unfortunately, my hubs is insisting we move back to those beautiful tn mountains. I'll just have wear ear plugs and ignore the idiots.
vkkv
(3,384 posts)So we Northerners can finally get going on that BORDER FENCE.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Middle Eastern fairy tales?
Sounds a little to furren in origin to be the state book of Tennessee.
HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)With these people (religious right-wing nut jobs), one always must look at the long game being played. This move isn't simply a public gesture of respect for a religious work, it is in fact, the first step in promoting the bible to be taught in public schools, a long-held mission of the religious freaks.
And I agree with a previous post -- exactly WHICH version of the bible are they attempting to shove down everyone's throats? There are dozens. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_Bible_translations for a list of just the ones in English.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,368 posts)Bolstered by opposition from Republican leadership, the Senate voted 22-9 to send the Bible to committee, effectively killing the bill a day after it was adopted by the House.
"This isn't the time or place now in the full Senate floor to delve into that. We really need to look into it in committee," Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris, R-Collierville, said about two hours before the vote.
Gov. Bill Haslam and Attorney General Herbert Slatery oppose the bill; Slatery recently announced he thinks the bill violates the state and federal constitutions.
http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2015/04/16/senate-kills-bill-to-make-bible-official-tennessee-book/25871395/
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Great news.
Thanks for posting their one moment of reality & reason.