Galt's Gulch

State Bill To Choose State Fossil Put On Ice Over God

Posted by khalling 10 years ago to Government
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Mammoth teeth were discovered in SC in 1725. Only 7 states do not have a state fossil. The bill was tabled because a proposed amendment was to include that mammoths were created by God and on the 6th day.
Now, although I think legislators have more important work to undertake, I generally don't want to see them pass more laws but work on repealing a bunch, this takes the cake for me.
SOURCE URL: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/01/mammoth-bible-south-carolina-state-fossil/

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  • Posted by UncommonSense 10 years ago
    They'll do anything except tackle the real issues at hand: stopping kommon kore, denying Ovomitkare, lowering their taxes by (gasp) bringing in Producers instead of relying on mexico & china, thus in the process, lower the crime rate because the people have something to do.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years ago
    I have to agree.

    1) A state fossil? Really. This just goes to show that state legislatures are doing too much.

    2) Using such foolishness to infuse religion into the state code is dumb.

    3) However, doing so, is not an establishment of a state religion.
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    • Posted by $ Maphesdus 10 years ago
      1) There are official state birds and official state flowers. I don't see how having an official state fossil is any different.
      2) I agree.
      3) Yes it is.
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      • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years ago
        The fact that there are those other "official" items again just shows that these legislatures are non productive.
        Only the federal gov't is prohibited from establishing an official religion.
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        • Posted by $ Maphesdus 10 years ago
          The 14th Amendment expanded that prohibition to the state governments as well.
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          • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years ago
            Not at all. The equal protection clause is always misinterpreted. All it means is that all citizens must be held accountable to the laws equally, NOT that all laws in the several states must be the same. Otherwise, there would be no reason for states.
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            • Posted by $ Maphesdus 10 years ago
              Who said anything about all laws? I was talking about a constitutional limitation on government.

              And yes, the 14th Amendment did absolutely impose limitations on state governments which previously had only applied to the federal government. The separation of church and state was one of those limitations.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years ago
    Even if there weren't an establishment cause, can the gov't pass a law about a fact. Suppose scientists date that fossil to 10,000 years ago. Can they make a law about that? That' a fact, something that could be proven or disproven, not something the gov't can enforce or get involved with.
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