What is it with the South? Have they forgotten that these questions were settled by the sword 150 years ago?
A bill filed by Republican lawmakers would allow North Carolina to declare an official religion, in violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Bill of Rights, and seeks to nullify any federal ruling against Christian prayer by public bodies statewide.
Declaring a state religion is blatantly unconstitutional, and states do not have the right to nullify Federal rulings either. But that doesn't seem to matter once you get below the Mason-Dixon line.
House Bill 494, a resolution filed by Republican Rowan County Reps. Harry Warren and Carl Ford, would refuse to acknowledge the force of any judicial ruling on prayer in North Carolina – or indeed on any Constitutional topic:
"The Constitution of the United States does not grant the federal government and does not grant the federal courts the power to determine what is or is not constitutional; therefore, by virtue of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the power to determine constitutionality and the proper interpretation and proper application of the Constitution is reserved to the states and to the people," the bill states. "Each state in the union is sovereign and may independently determine how that state may make laws respecting an establishment of religion."
Wrong, wrong wrong WRONG! Have these people no comprehension of Article VI and The Supremacy Clause?
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.
Trying to establish a state religion (presumably Christianity) and then declaring that North Carolina can ignore a Federal court ruling? It is the very "tyranny of the majority" the Constitution is meant to prevent.
Don't make us resurrect Cump Sherman and send him down there again to teach you a lesson!