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So This Happened

The KKK posted recruiting posters in my neighborhood.

There is outrage in Emsworth after someone posted signs trying to recruit people to join the KKK.

Police say the signs aren’t illegal, so people in the neighborhood are taking some action of their own.

None appeared on my street, even though we're just a block away from Center Ave.  The telephone numbers listed on the poster bear area codes for North Carolina and Virginia, but that doesn't rule out a local being responsible.  I've lived here in the same house for over 18 years, I know all the neighbors well, and I'm not aware of anyone with racist attitudes.  If I see any of these odious posters pop up, I'll be tearing them down.

Again WIth The Nullification?

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!

North Carolina Enshrines Bigotry

Since when are rights subject to a plebiscite?  I guess ever since religious bigots are allowed anywhere near the levers of power.  To wit:

"I think it sends a message to the rest of the country that marriage is between one man and one woman," Fitzgerald said at a celebration Tuesday night. "The whole point is simply that you don't rewrite the nature of God's design based on the demands of a group of adults."

Gay marriage goes against you religion?  Fine.  Don't have one.  Stop forcing your bronze age religious intolerance upon everyone else.