State bill proposes Christianity be Missouri’s official religion
Missouri legislators in Jefferson City considered a bill that would name Christianity the state’s official “majority” religion.
House Concurrent Resolution 13 has is pending in the state legislature.
Many Missouri residents had not heard about the bill until Thursday.
Karen Aroesty of the Anti-defamation league, along with other watch-groups, began a letter writing and email campaign to stop the resolution.
The resolution would recognize “a Christian god,” and it would not protect minority religions, but “protect the majority’s right to express their religious beliefs.
The resolution also recognizes that, “a greater power exists,” and only Christianity receives what the resolution calls, “justified recognition.”
I’m sure the fundies who pressured this to be written are humping their bibles in ecstasy right now. As a Pagan this both disgusts and scares me. I agree with Gloria Brame’s blog comments “As if this isn’t bad enough….as my husband pointed out earlier, with Scalia and Alito on the bench, if this ever went to the Supreme Court, Missouri just might win.”As a former Missouri resident I am sadly not surprised.
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