Mississippi bill to put Ten Commandments in schools dies

Last week we learned that Mississippi State Representative Credell Calhoun, a Bible-thumping Democrat, had presented a bill that would’ve installed a Ten Commandments display in every classroom and made teachers read them aloud every day. That such legislation was self-evidently unconstitutional and didn’t have a snowflake’s chance in hell of making it to a vote, much less becoming law, apparently never crossed his mind.

Well, the inevitable wasted no time in coming to pass, and HB 1100 is now dead in subcommittee only 15 days after its introduction. As is HB 783, another bill Calhoun had introduced days earlier that would’ve made moments of silence mandatory in schools – something also covered by the later bill. So not only didn’t he realize the earlier bill was stillborn, he then doubled down on it with the Ten Commandments bill.

It’s a low bar, but it’s good to see that his fellow legislators have more sense – and knowledge of the law – than he does.

(via Friendly Atheist)