“What do we have to lose?” Moron!
Amazing that instead of doing the people’s business they have time for this nonsense.
I swear states like TN, NC, MS and KS will become “business deserts” when all but small business’s (like car repair, grocery stores, gas stations and others that serve only the local populace) leave these states for more tolerant locales that do not engage in such silly, regressive and plain stupid policies. Voters will 1st rue the day these companies left and then also when they consider it’s the republicsum legislators THEY voted into office that caused the mass exodus.
Republicans have basically become American ISIS.
Do these guys think that this is what they were elected to do? It also makes it OK for other states to make the Quran their state book (not that it might happen).
WHACKOS!
Oh for christ sakes!
Who’s bible? And, you do know that there is a division of church and state right?
So, you are spending tax payers hard earned money on this stupid crap? Then they will have to pay for the lawsuit this brings?
Fiscal con, is right!
Don’t forget Check Cashing and the 300% interest…it is booming here in East TN, I see these shops expanding almost weekly.
State book + state rifle = Nutjobbery!
Now comes the fight over the specific version…anything that diverts attention away from needed programs. An example: In February 2015, we had an ice storm that shut down power for my neighbors for over a week (I use solar). The power company refused to use mutual aide but they sure made sure during the shutdown time to pay the Execs there bonuses thus the outage lasted much longer than necessary. But that is not why I mention the ice storm, my reason is that even a year later the ditches on the sides of roads are filled with cut up trees, trees that were cut just short of the white line on the narrow roads. County and towns don’t have the funds for the cleanup and the State has refused any funds, therefore nothing from FEMA either. Actually my county did not even request cleanup bids until July and refused to award any contracts because they all came in high. Imagine coming around a curve in the middle of the night on a road just wide enough that cars can pass each other with the other driver hugging or even across the yellow line (very common) and the ditch filled with logs.
Coming to the US if Chri$harianism prevails: ChickFilay the nation’s food; women in burqas–sole distributor of cheap Chinese fabric --HobbyLobby; National drink - ToxicTea; Official candy -NewTestaMints; Science banned in the FauXian Academies…
Once again, Republicans contemplate shitting all over their state constitution and the federal constitution.
Then again, I wonder if these state lawmakers consider themselves part of the US, or the Confederacy in Absentia?
And afterward, they formed a naked circle-jerk and sang Kumbaya.
Actually, I think they did that before the vote…that’s what inspired it!
I’d laugh at their state, but I live in NC!
This country is too big, and there are too many morons who want a theocracy. Easy solution, carve it up, let the nutjobs choke on their hatred for everyone else within the quite confines of their exclusionary borders. Let everyone else find a real path towards tolerance, peace, and inclusion. or…they DOOK ER JERBS!
Republican Sen. Steve Southerland then introduced a bill to make a white sheet and pointed hat the Official Halloween Costume of the State. He argued that his bill is aimed at recognizing the costume for its historical and cultural contributions to the state, rather than as government endorsement of bigotry and hate.
Poor Tennessee – still hasn’t gotten over the Scopes trial.
It’s a pity that H. L. Mencken isn’t still around to pillory their particular brand of wingnuttery.
There are so many problems with this idea that I hardly know where to begin.
First of all, there is no single book known as “the Bible.” It’s a collection of works gathered from here and there, and no one can agree on which works belong in the collection or even how many of them comprise the whole.
Collections of books called “the Bible” contain as few as 63 or as many as 83 books within them. Source materials vary, too, with no one even agreeing as to which source materials should be used.
Does the Tennessee official “state book” include the Apocrypha? No? Why not? If so, why?
Then there’s the matter of which translation to use. Textus Receptus? Latin Vulgate? Something else? There are many options; they’re all different.
My guess is that these clowns don’t have a clue about any of this and that doesn’t even touch on the Constitutional aspects of picking a religious text as your state book.
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” - Mahatma Gandhi