So Much for the United States Constitution

So as I’m wandering around the net during the day as I often do looking for tasty bits of knowledge to fill my downtime I came across an article that stated North Carolina is seeking to establish a state religion. At first I couldn’t believe what I was reading, surely this had to a be a horrible late April Fool’s joke, right? Nope. It’s real.

Two Republican representatives from North Carolina sponsored this bout of idiocy which clearly goes against our First Amendment right, granted in the United States Constitution. Here’s the thing though, the people backing this bill are stating that the United States Constitution is little more than toilet paper in good old North Carolina.

Section one of this bill reads:

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.

In section two the bill goes on to say:

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.

So basically these so called representatives of North Carolina don’t feel their state has to follow the same guidelines and rules as the other states set forth by the United States Constitution. The jest of the bill is to A) allow North Carolina to declare an official religion and B) nullify any federal ruling against Christian bodies in the state of North Carolina.

Have these law makers never heard of the separation of church and state? I didn’t think another state could beat out Arkansas for having the biggest assclowns in office, but clearly I was wrong. These guys from North Carolina take the assclown cake.

To make matters worse, the Racial Justice Act was recently repealed allowing executions to be restarted in North Carolina, what the hell is this state being run by? Members of the Ku Klux Klan!?

Of course Carl Ford (one of the sponsors) says that this bill is “only intended to allow Rowan county commissioners to open their meeting with prayers, not establish a state religion.” Funny, every time I read back over section one I can’t help but notice the part about the US Constitution having no right to prohibit a state from establishing a religion.