North Carolina Wants State Religion

I don’t even have to ask if Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, Sikhs, or any other religious (or non-religious) persons will get to offer their own version of prayer to absolutely turn the religious right beet red. Just tell the Baptists that their son or daughter will have to listen to Mormon and Catholic prayers, or that one of the pastors giving the prayers might speak in tongues.

Is it really that hard to realize why government should have zero business dealing with anything religious? Let people believe what they want and perform whatever they want on their own free time.

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
-Matthew 6:1,5-6

What next? A statewide KKK rally with burning crosses A lynching or two also? Signs that state “Jews, dogs, the others and non Christians prohibited.” This is the Priebus new look for the GOP? It’s happened before!

Break out the snakes!

Nazis did the same thing back in the day!

NORTH CAROLINA IS NOT THE PALMETTO STATE! THATS SOUTH CAROLINA BRAIN CHILD!

As long as it is Baptist then we’re ok. Can’t have any radical religion like Presbyterian or Episcopal.

Hitler was an occultist..and Stalin and Mao were Atheists…
Libralism follows some of the same tenents of Mao, Hitler and Satlin…
Why don’t you oppose Liberalism?

While the establishment clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution explicitly enjoins Congress from establishing a state religion – are states similarly precluded from doing so?

The answer to your “self licking lollipop” question is no, the states are not precluded from having a state religion – in fact Connecticut’s state religion (Congregationalism) wasn’t disestablished until 1818 (SC disestablished theirs in 1790). The last state to officially abolish support for a state religion was Massachusetts who finally cut off funding in the 1830s.

A state religion? —— BAAAAD IDEA

I believe “Dog Worship” is SC’s state religion.

Our country is moving backards because the conservatives are pulling so hard against progress that they’re falling back further than they intended to.

Nothing ever damaged Christianity like Christians do.

The state religion in North Carolina should be Botulism

…and to think they are the educated side of the family, not.

Will our Sikh governor endorse such a measure?

I would suggest North Carolina’s legislature read the United States Supreme Court’s opinion in Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1 (1947), which held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment incorporated the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause, and therefore the Establishment Clause applies not only to actions of the federal government, but to states as well.

Under the incorporation doctrine of the 14th Amendment (which applies most (but not all) of the rights found in the Bill of Rights to the states) it is unequivocally unconstitutional for a state to establish an “official religion”. Before the passage of the 14th Amendment after the civil war (and the Supreme Court’s subsequent interpretation of that Amendment) one would have been correct in stating that there was no Constitutional prohibition against states establishing an “official religion”. Today, however, there is no ambiguity; thanks to the incorporation doctrine it is clearly and unmistakably unconstitutional.

North Carolina ALREADY HAS a state religion:

It’s called Bar-B-Que!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Despite some purposeful misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment by socialist judicial activists in the 20th century, nothing relevant to the issue has changed in the U.S. Constitution since several states with state churches or laws involving religious worship were admitted into the union with those institutions and laws intact. The matter of religion is purely an internal matter for the states.

Is it a good idea to go to the extreme of having a state church? Probably not, but lots of states have bad ideas put into law and it should be up to them to govern themselves–for better or worse. Certainly the damned idiots in D.C.–especially the drooling cretins on the US Supreme Court–can render no better decisions as they have arrogantly taken upon themselves the task of micromanaging our lives.

But then, the legislators in N.C. are not talking about establishing a state church, are they? On the practices attendant to religion, especially on the matter of prayer in school and other such finer details, if there’s going to be true freedom of worship, it will have to be up to the people in the states and their willingness to fight for it and defy the tyranny (yes, with nullification) of the fascist central government that has been doing its best to denigrate our unalienable right to worship.

And, for those of you who keep idiotically referring to the misunderstood phrase, “wall of separation,” here’s what Thomas Jefferson said on the exact issue in 1808:

“I consider the government of the U S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment, or free exercise, or religion, but from that also which reserves to the states the powers not delegated to the U.S. Certainly no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the general government. It must then rest with the states, as far as it can be in any human authority.”

Good luck overstepping the 1st amendment. We’ll see how well that goes.

There is nothing legally preventing NC from doing this, although it supposes that the citizens of that state are still religious in any recognizable way.
Many, if not most, of the colonies had tax funded churches at the time of the revolution. Several continued to have state churches intil the early 19th century. South Carolina, for example, was Anglican until 1790. Mass was congregationalist until 1780, although it continued to be funded until 1833. There are other examples– many of which post-date the ratification of the u.S. Constitution.
Besides, why would we want/need a state religion when we already have a national religion. Although unnamed, It is a currious blend of secular humanism, worship of an all-powerful national government, and a belief in equality and human progress.

I’m fine with religion, in all of our lives, in every aspect, controlling everything, and everyone.
As long as it’s “MY RELIGION, AND MINE ALONE!”
Your’s doesn’t count.