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5/14/2008
4:37:21 pm EDT
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SC Lawmakers Have Religion On Minds, In Bills
Author: Jim Davenport, Associated Press Source: Charlotte Observer (NC)
Title: SC LAWMAKERS HAVE RELIGION ON MINDS, IN BILLS
Faith in the public square would have a high profile in South Carolina as three bills move closer to becoming law.
One creates license tags with "I Believe" in front of a cross; a second makes clear prayers can be offered before public meetings and a third allows set public displays of key historical legal foundation documents that would include the Ten Commandments.
The "faith tag" zipping through South Carolina's Legislature nearly made it into law in Florida. But it was dropped from a license tag bill there at the last minute.
State Sen. Yancey McGill, a Kingstree Democrat, got the bill passed in a couple of days without even having a public hearing or debate.
"It's a great idea," McGill said Tuesday, calling it an opportunity to express beliefs. "People don't have to buy them. But it affords them that opportunity. I welcome any religion tags."
What about Wicca, commonly referred to as witchcraft? "Well, that's not what I consider to be a religion," McGill said. And Buddhism? "I'd have to look at the individual situation. But I'm telling you, I firmly believe in this tag."
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| With All Due Respect | May 15th. at 10:03:46 pm EDT
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Morboriel (Brooklyn, Arizona) - Email Me
Thank the Gods my Grandmother high-tailed it north to NYC when she was 19.
Anyone sane living down there has my deepest condolences.
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| George W Bush Much? | May 15th. at 4:37:38 am EDT
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Moonlight Wolf (Bradford, England) - Email Me
What stood out to me were McGill's views on Wicca and Buddhism. He doesn't consider Wicca to be a religion thus my headline.
Although the line that said they would need the $30 generated from religious license plates to pay for their legal bills made me smile.
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| ... | May 14th. at 8:20:32 pm EDT
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web
When it comes to weird news, it just doesn't work for South Carolina. Anything stupid could be attributed to those crazy fundie hillbillies. "Jebus license plates are being stamped. Oh, those crazy hillbillies." See? No humor involved there.
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| /facepalm | May 14th. at 8:12:30 pm EDT
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Riona Twilight (Spearfish, Oregon) - Email Me
To borrow one of the best "what an idiot" terms from the computer gaming world.... /facepalm.
By allowing any of these tags to go through from a lay-person's view I see this as stampeding over the First Amendment of the Constitution.
If this goes through, I hope they not only have to pay the ACLU's legal fees when its challenged (because it will be) , but recall all the plates / produce plates for EVERY religion (and there are a ton of those out there) ... or recall them all and melt them down to be pressed into REGULAR plates.
People, if you are going to waste tax-payer cash? Use somethng non-offensive! I mean, here in Oregon there are special Crater Lake Plates, and its pretty hard to offend people on a specialty order plate where part of the cash goes to keeping that park running!
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| Well, There's Always Magic Markers... | May 14th. at 7:35:00 pm EDT
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
As long as I don't have to buy it, it's freedom of expression, But if for some reason I was forced to bear something that idiotic, I would be forced to get as creative as possible with it, which would be my freedom to express.
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| Sucks To Live In SC Right Now... | May 14th. at 7:15:24 pm EDT
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Young Coyote (W. Hempstead, New York) - Email Me
'Cause all of your tax money is about to be used in an expensive lawsuit to defend the religious expression of a few crazy fundies.
Don't really care about a license plate too much, but after reading the rep's comments on Wicca and Buddhism I want it to fail. Government has no right to say what is and isn't a religion.
Prayers I don't mind if they are all-inclusive. Of course, they never are, not even in the North. And this is the South we're talking about...
Ten Commandments have not a single damn thing to do with the laws in this country. The only two Commandments that are laws are not to murder and not to steal, and I'm pretty sure we could have agreed to that without this BS notion that we're a "Christian nation".
I would hate to live in SC right now 'cause they're gonna get sued, they're going to lose, and in the end the state treasury will be even less than it was before these stupid bills. And all to apease a minority fundie crowd.
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| Oh Boy | May 14th. at 6:42:08 pm EDT
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Rutilus Draconis (Fair Haven, Michigan) - Email Me
The ACLU is going to have a field day with these backwoods xian morons, and by the way the U.S. Supreme Court declared Wicca to be a VALID religion in 1985
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| Astounding... | May 14th. at 6:11:38 pm EDT
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Friday Scott (Middleton, Wisconsin) - Email Me
How utterly flagrant a violation of the Constitution can get and still please conservatives.
It's not like it's hard for Christians to broadcast their religious affiliations on cars for all the selective enforcement they can get, as it is... and the very person supporting it demonstrated what this leads to... Him deciding what's a 'real' religion or in 'what case' he thinks it's OK to be Pagan or Buddhist.
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