Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Mississippi State Flag
As a federal judge prepares to rule on Mississippi’s ban on same-sex marriage, a group known as the Magnolia State Heritage Campaign is trying to cement Christianity as the state’s official religion in its constitution. They are proposing a constitutional amendment that they hope will be on the 2016 ballot.

The actual text of the amendment would read:
The State of Mississippi hereby acknowledges the fact of her identity as a principally Christian and quintessentially Southern state, in terms of the majority of her population, character, culture, history, and heritage, from 1817 to the present; accordingly, the Holy Bible is acknowledged as a foremost source of her founding principles, inspiration, and virtues; and, accordingly, prayer is acknowledged as a respected, meaningful, and valuable custom of her citizens. The acknowledgments hereby secured shall not be construed to transgress either the national or the state Constitution’s Bill of Rights.
The initiative would also make English the official state language "requiring all governmental services, functions, or communications to be rendered “in the English language only.”

So things start out with a simple slogan of "In God We Trust" placed on walls of city council chambers, then progresses to having a statute of the ten commandments in the halls of the court houses.  Finally this is what it come to.  Watch for it in your city, county, or state.  "In God We Trust" is on the wall of the Ontario city council chambers already.
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/11/18/3593319/mississippi-heritage-initiative/

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