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āOne giant step for TeaOcracy
Ten steps back for humanity.ā
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Waitā¦wasnāt there a document somewhere that called for separation of church andā¦what was that thing called again?
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From the article āBut he sees the Bible as a good guide for promoting kindness and compassion.ā Time, perhaps, to start sending the good lawmaker examples of kindness and compassion from the āgood bookā.
Perhaps 'Saul replied, āSay to David, 'The king wants no other price for the bride than a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies.ā #kindnessandcompassion might work 
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The Harry Potter series seems more plausible.
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I propose a different Fantasy Novel as the Mississippi STATE BOOK: 1984.
After all, it details each and every one of the Tea Party ideas these āmoransā wholeheartedly support.
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Iād like to offer this fine lawmaker from Mississippi a copy of James Madisonās writing; in particular, his Detached Memoranda, in which he writes that the separation between Religion and Government is strongly guarded in the Constitution, and that āThe Constitution of the U. S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.ā
Lots of books promote kindness and compassion: Mississippi might be better served if Rep. Milesā office spent time researching local poets and authors whose works focused on those themes, and highlighting them.
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Great. Move to the Middle East. Mississippi is still the anus of the US with Texas following close behind.
āBut he sees the Bible as a good guide for promoting kindness and compassion.ā
I immediately thought of āLe Petit Princeā. Now thereās a book that promotes kindness and compassion. The Bible, on the other hand, promotes mass murder.
This guy seems not to have realized that Republicans unanimously at the federal level and very significantly at the state levels have actively rejected the kindness and compassion parts of the Bible, and the ones who claim the Bible to be the inerrant word of god have decided dozens of times that they would rather burn in hell until the end of time than commit acts of kindness and compassion.
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I totally believe in Harry Potter! Iāve got this book that says itās all real.
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If Mississippiās āstate bookā is going to be something that reflects their culture, it would have to be one of those kidsā books in one-syllable words.
People in Mississippi read?
Behind? Now, ifād said Texas was ahead of MS, that would make Texas the taint of the US. Sounds about right to me.
Really? Which kids books contain burning crosses and lynchings, a lengthy legacy of slavery, segregation and discrimination and the latent racism, bigotry and lingering discriminatory intent smothered in a Christian veil like what is driving proposals like this one? If anything should be Mississippiās state book or writing, it should be the KKKās manifesto or perhaps White Manās Burden by Kipling. If thereās a state in the union that needs to be burned to the ground to save the rest of us, itās Ole Miss.
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proposed āState Positionā ā¦āDoggy Styleā
not trying to force a anything ā on anyone. But sees it as a good guide for promoting kindness and compassion.
American Sharia. SMDH.
how about Uncle Tomās Cabin?
Posts here are as ignorant as this lawmaker. Mississippi has an amazing literary tradition.
http://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/writers/
Read up. Start with Faulkner.