Tennessee bid to name God as source of liberty resurrected

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Tennessee bid to name God as source of liberty resurrected
Updated 8:13 pm, Wednesday, March 29, 2017


NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A previously defeated proposal to amend the state constitution to say that God is the source of Tennesseans' liberties has been resurrected in the House.

The measure sponsored by Republican Rep. Micah Van Huss of Jonesborough failed on a 3-3 vote in the House Civil Justice Subcommittee earlier this month. But the panel agreed to a motion to reconsider the bill made by Republican Rep. Martin Daniel of Knoxville.

The resolution is scheduled to be reheard April 5.

The proposed addition to the Tennessee Constitution would read: "We recognize that our liberties do not come from governments, but from almighty God."

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Tennessee-bid-to-name-God-as-source-of-liberty-11037728.php

[RKP5637]

1. F'en fools! n/t

[SharonAnn]

12. I don't know, "endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights"

This is a stupid thing for us to waste our time on. We have far more important things to be dealing with but you can always count on our legislature to introduce bizarre bills relating to guns and God.

[bitterross]

32. That is not in the Constitution. THE document that guarantees our freedoms

Look, I escaped from TN (where I was born and raised) many, many years ago because of people like these idiots. The founders very carefully and intentionally omitted God from our Constitution.

I keep telling my friends in TN they need to get rid of these idiots - especially Marsha Blackburn. There are real issues out there we need our elected officials to work on. Not made up issues like this one.

[Adrahil]

2. Pretty sure God doesn't support freedom of religion. NT

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Liberty is not god-given, it is gained & kept by human effort and sometimes blood. . . . nt

[Stonepounder]

9. We hold these truths to be self-evident

that men are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights governments are instituted among men ...

[msongs]

4. which god? there are millions to choose from. and what about goddesses? nt

[FakeNoose]

24. I'm sure they're talking about

... the WHITE, MALE, REPUBLICAN version.
Anything else wouldn't be worth mentioning.

[wcmagumba]

5. But which one? Here's a site with a list of some...

https://www.rationalresponders.com/a_big_list_of_gods_but_nowhere_near_all_of_them

Kind of an atheist meme on this site and I have nothing to do with it, but found it revealing.

[NickB79]

21. Someone needs to translate the bill to Arabic and see how many sign it with Allah in place of God

The reactions would be priceless.

[Panich52]

27. Each denies they're talking about exactly the same mythical entity

[RKP5637]

26. Probably this one!

[sakabatou]

6. Clearly, Van Huss has never read the Bible.

[keithbvadu2]

7. Given by God and can be taken away by secular gov't.

Given by God and can be taken away by secular gov't.

They are pushing a weak God.

[jalan48]

8. How did these people get so stupid?

[SharonAnn]

13. Living in TN for 17 years, I still haven't figured it out.

[Zorro]

10. Our Founding Fathers were well aware of the perniciousness of religion in politics

[Girard442]

11. IOW, "We hope God's looking out for the rights and liberties of Tennesseeans...

...'cause the Tennessee legislature sure as hell ain't."

[YOHABLO]

14. Excuse me while I fetch my banjo.

.

[pfitz59]

15. Tennessee is in the grip of an opioid epidemic

and shitbags are crying "God". Absolute waste of time and money... http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/industries/health-care/2016/04/02/opioid-abuse-has-death-grip-tennessee/82386402/

[sinkingfeeling]

16. Then let God pay for their retirement and highways.

[Panich52]

28. God was my copilot. Then we crashed ...

[LuckyLib]

17. This is how Drumpf got so many votes -- why are we surprised? The stoopid is amazing.

[peacebuzzard]

18. Right at 65% of the vote for the tiny hands truck driver.

I was not at all surprised about the TN voting. Dems are loathed "round these parts". In certain sparsely populated counties they know exactly who you vote for. If you vote Dem, you will lose your job if it's locally administered.

[LuckyLib]

19. It will be interesting to see if media in TN

poses the questions to folks, "How's that Trump vote working for you?"

[tblue37]

20. Blatantly unconstitutional! nt

[Ilsa]

22. So God has supported Liberty for only 241 of the last 6,000 years?

Not all that enthusiastic, is he?

Yeah, I'm using their 6000 year calendar for this post.

[Panich52]

29. Apparently they forget about the Decalogue

Considering how many of the 10 rules have to do with bowing down to their "author," he doesn't sound like much of a liberty lover.

[Vinca]

23. Which God?????

[metalbot]

25. I'm actually very happy when people pull the "rights from God" argument

...because inevitably the same people are virulently anti-immigration and insist that non-citizens don't have rights. You can further argue that those rights clearly don't end at the US borders, which means that all humans should have those rights, which shuts down a lot of their more hawkish foreign policy rights (because if rights are God given, then our government should not be able to violate rights outside the US any more than they can inside the US).

[Panich52]

30. Unconstitutional. But could be fixed with 2 word changes:

Change to:
"We recognize that our liberties do not come from governments, but from our creator."

That would make it in line with founding documents. Using "almighty God" implies Judeo-Christian—their intent because other religions, esp Islam (which, BTW, worships exactly the same entity), pagans & atheists, threaten their one-sided moralistic ideas. And once the discriminatory & divisive addition is in their state constitution, they can justify crap like paying f/ creationist theme parks w/ tax money & allowing proselytizing in schools & other public govt venues.

[Thomas Hurt]

31. another conservative solution in search of a problem...

also, this little dog and pony show is just another bit of political activism to have state sanctioned religion......of course.

If you want to understand natural rights.....go the philosophical source John Locke.