State law's reference to 'Almighty God' struck down

[usregimechange]

A judge on Wednesday struck down a 2006 state law that required the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to stress "dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the commonwealth."

Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate ruled that the law violated the First Amendment's protection against the establishment of a state religion.

Homeland Security officials have been required for three years to credit "Almighty God" in their official reports and post a plaque with similar language at the state's Emergency Operations Center in Frankfort.

"Even assuming that most of this nation's citizens have historically depended upon God by choice for their protection, this does not give the General Assembly the right to force citizens to do so now," Wingate wrote.

"This is the very reason the Establishment Clause was created: to protect the minority from the oppression of the majority," he wrote. "The commonwealth's history does not exclude God from the statutes, but it had never permitted the General Assembly to demand that its citizens depend on Almighty God."

http://www.kentucky.com/176/story/910712.html

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Good for the judge, and I hope no wingnuts come after him physically.

[Qutzupalotl]

2. "They killed God! You bastards!!"

[chaplainM]

5. He had it coming.

Protecting Kentucky while New Orleans drowned. He should've been ashamed of Himself.

[pyoom]

3. Like the judge said, it does seem like that law is the very reason

the Establishment Clause was put into the Constitution.

[Iggo]

4. "This is the very reason the Establishment Clause was created..."

It's hard understand how these wacko laws get more than one fucking vote.

It bottles the mind, I tells ya.

[Tesha]

8. Whacko pols vote for whacko laws.

(Why do I have the feeling that I should now say...)

Pictures at 11:00!

Tesha

[Uncle Joe]

6. Kicked and recommended for Constitutional rule.

Thanks for the thread, usregimechange.

[11 Bravo]

7. Good! I happen to be a believer (Christian), but there is no way in Hell ...

that my beliefs should be codified into law and imposed on anyone else.

[usregimechange]

10. Good for you. I wish there were more folks like that where I live.

[kestrel91316]

9. Reason RULES!!!