Republicans propose declaring Idaho a 'Christian state'

[KamaAina]

http://news.yahoo.com/republicans-propose-declaring-idaho-christian-state-233031805.html

Members of a county Republican Party in Idaho are to take up a measure on Tuesday evening that would declare the state a Christian one to bolster what the proposal calls the "Judeo-Christian bedrock of the founding of the United States."

The resolution to be voted on by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee is non-binding, meaning it does not have the effect of laws or rules.

The proposal seeks that Idaho be "formally and specifically declared a Christian state," guided by a Judeo-Christian faith reflected in the U.S. Declaration of Independence where all authority and power is attributed to God, the resolution reads.

The measure argues that the Christian faith is under "strident attack" in the United States, and cites as evidence the absence of Christian traditions and symbols in public institutions such as schools.

[JaneyVee]

1. American Taliban.

[dilby]

2. Can anyone name one thing that Idaho has going for it?

I can't think of a damn thing, there is being right next to Oregon but that does not count.

[Takket]

5. potatoes....

and this shirt...

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[dilby]

8. Potatoes are just organic mud pumps.

No wonder that state is so messed up, been pumping all that mud into the population.

[Glassunion]

15. Ernest and Margaux Hemingway...

Aaron Paul... I mean come on... Breaking Bad.
Paul Revere (and the Raiders)
Nikki Sixx
Picabo Street


Um...



Buck knives!



Um...


Ooh! Grand Teton Vodka...



Um...



About 23 breweries...



Um....



It's really beautiful there.

That's all I got.

[hifiguy]

3. Dumber than stumps. nt

[marym625]

4. That's it. I quit.

[Takket]

6. Clearly Unconstitutional

Hopefully someone sues the daylights out of them for trampling on the Constitution.

[Brigid]

7. These idiots do realize, don't they . . .

That there would be Constitutional issues here?

[JHB]

13. It's a grandstand play. It ain't as if the legal bills will come out of the grandstanders'...

...own pockets. It's the roaring crowd that will get stuck with the check. Plus everyone else in the seats whether they liked the grandstand play or not.

[gratuitous]

9. So, they're going to be all Bible believing and stuff?

Acts 4:32-37: Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common. And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need. Thus Joseph, who was also called by the apostles Barnabas (which means son of encouragement), a Levite, a native of Cyprus, sold a field that belonged to him and brought the money and laid it at the apostles' feet.

I guess if there are still needy persons in Idaho, we'll know just how serious they were about this resolution. Oddly, the Christian testament has something to say about that, too: Matthew 6:5. Jesus uses a pretty harsh word for those folks.

[Brigid]

14. They need to read my favorite Old Testament prophet too:

Amos. Amos 5:18-24, to be exact.

[msongs]

10. what they really mean is a Mormon state nt

[KamaAina]

17. Only in southeastern Idaho

around Pocatello. Up north by Coeur D'Alene you've got your Dominionist white supremacists.

[spanone]

11. sounds like sharia law

[C_U_L8R]

12. I've got a Christian State for these Republicans

It's called Rapture. They should try it.

[Initech]

16. First Amendment says hi!

[KamaAina]

18. They're livin' in their own Private Idaho

[Jamaal510]

19. Yet another example of the RW

ignoring parts of the Constitution they dislike (e.g. secularism). This country has somehow gone from John Adams' words about religion being a personal matter, to this situation where virtually an entire political party wants the standards of one religion to be imposed on everyone.