Missouri Voters Approve 'Right to Pray' Amendment 2

[cali]

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Missouri voters have approved a state constitutional amendment that guarantees the right to pray in a public place.

State Representative Mike McGhee sponsored the amendment in the state legislature.

"That it is okay for people to have prayer in public as long as they don't disturb other people around them," he said.

State Representative Jeannette Mott Oxford opposed the amendment, saying it's already covered by the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

"Our religious freedom is so precious, it's settled for all time. It doesn't need to go to a vote. If we put it on a ballot, that cheapens the Bill of Rights."

Polling showed the proposed state amendment drawing more than 80 percent support.

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[JHB]

1. Bravely fighting for rights they already have!

[charlie]

2. 80+ percent support

And the rubes fell for it. Come to the Show Me state, where Obama can't steal your Jesus.

[atreides1]

3. It's amazing.

Christians only seem to read the parts of the Bible that talk about hate and killing people.

Yet they always tend to ignore other parts, like this:Matthew 6:5, 6

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.

[Shadowflash]

5. Welcome to the bible buffet

Where you only need partake of the parts you like and can ignore the rest.

[AngryOldDem]

10. Funny how they seem to ignore some things, isn't it? n/t

[RKP5637]

15. They pick what they want, often embellish that as needed, throw out the

rest and if it isn't there, they make it up. Another reason I left religion decades ago and never looked back.

[Ikonoklast]

4. When was that right ever restricted before?

What a load.

[Loki]

6. This stinker of an amendment also included this little gem.......

"no student shall be compelled to perform or participate in academic assignments or educational presentations that violate his or her religious beliefs." Sit back and watch how they try to implement this giant piece of stupidity.

[MattBaggins]

8. Woot no more math

[Arkana]

12. Which means every snotnosed little asshole can beg off assignments

by saying it violates tenets of his religion.

[coalition_unwilling]

18. LOL at 'snotnosed little asshole'. I know where you're coming from and

would only remind you to listen again to South Pacific:

"You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade,
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught before it's too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You've got to be carefully taught!"

[Volaris]

13. I love it when mostly illiterate people try and manipulate language this way...

The idiots forgot to include language that says an educator is barred from FAILING that student for lack of participation. Missouri has grown on me since I moved here as a kid, but really, there are days when I wish I lived somewhere else....

[cbdo2007]

14. That will happen....just not until they get to college.

[coalition_unwilling]

17. Biology teachers begin gnashing their teeth and rending

their garments en masse as 150 years of biological science (Darwin, Mendel) go down the tubes.

Biblical diction intentional

[4th law of robotics]

20. There goes evolution

Bravely marching towards the middle ages.

[surrealAmerican]

7. I can hardly wait to see what their response will be ...

... when they find out that not everybody who prays in public places is Christian.

[MattBaggins]

9. Can I give that the biggest "Ding We Have a Winner" of all times

It will be just like the morons in Louisiana who are enraged that their own laws allowing charter schools also means Muslims can open them.

[Efilroft Sul]

11. Matthew 6:5

"When you pray, don't be like the hypocrites who love to pray publicly on street corners and in the synagogues where everyone can see them. I tell you the truth, that is all the reward they will ever get."

[RKP5637]

16. Preparing the nation for the 21st century to believe in delusions and to be

poorly educated.

[4th law of robotics]

19. I want the guaranteed right not to pray in public spaces

since we're codifying rights that already exist and are in no way threatened.

Oh and I want the right to tip less that 15% for truly terrible service. And to read the paper on the bus! And step on leaves that look crunchy!

[hifiguy]

21. The Chinese, Japanese, South Koreans, Germans

and the citizens of every other technologically advanced nations of the world must laugh so hard they load their pants every time they read another story about good old 'murkan stupidity and superstition. And we never seem to run out of morans.