Next time it is this cold, you have my permission to not go to school.

Mine, too. Silly kid loves school- can't get her to play hookie for nothing.

You must be ashamed. Where did you go wrong?

A news story out of Ashville, North Carolina has brought to my attention the following:


Apparently there are several more states that still have this language in their constitutions.


Now, I'm not really worried about anybody being barred because of these (existing case law pretty well establishes that the U.S. Constitution barring religious tests for office applies to state and local government as well).



I just find it interesting that they're still there and that any attempt to remove them quite possibly would fail and every once in a while someone is put through the hassle (and sometimes expense, one guy spent $100k on court costs in 1990 to become a notary public in South Carolina despite being an atheist).


That said, I would not be above using atheism as my way of avoiding jury duty in Arkansas.

And according to the town charter, Chief Wiggum gets a pig and two comely lasses of virtue true!

I imagine that if one looked into such nonsense, the rationale would be not so much that atheists are morally or mentally deranged but that in denying a Supreme Being, they lack the capacity to take the necessary oaths.

Well, at least if you really wanted to be a witness, you could say you DO believe in A God. You don't necessarily have to disclose that your God is Bacon... ;)

Sadly that wouldn't work for me either. I'm a bacon atheist as well.

I think the rationale is generally that if you don't believe a God is looking over your shoulder, waiting to punish you for lying despite the oath, then what reason does the court have to believe you're telling the truth.

Essentially a variation on how can you be a moral person without god?

Yo, Lashbear and Stoat!
 

I bought a package at the grocery store today.