Atheists face a year in prison for disbelief in U.S state

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Shocking. Absolutely shocking and unbelievable. This is the sort of thing you'd expect to see during medieval Europe during the persecution of non-believers, or in Christian and Islamic theocracies today. Disgraceful.

Wow! That is the sort of "law" I'd expect from the Taliban.

The Christian Taliban. Makes your heart sink with this medievalist authoritarianism, don't it.

US constitution, original text:

"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.".

This is likely unconstitutional even *without* the 1st amendment.

Strict scrutiny, anyone?

Agreed with GGPViper.

Something just doesn't make sense. Consider me very skeptical of this until confirmation.

ONWARD!

To the Sixteenth Centurey!

Maybe theyll bring back the Inquisition too!

Well that story is sort of inaccurate. It was clarified on another website

So basically it is mandating DHS install a plaque proclaiming the power of an 'Almighty god' which is pretty ridiculous on its own but not quite outlawing atheism as this examiner article(which gets money per click btw) implies.

The guy who stuck that mandate into the law was Democratic state rep. Tom Riner for anybody that is curious. Kentucky democrats lay religion and social conservatism on thick as a means of staying relevant as they do all over the south. These are the same weirdos that thought claiming that Rand Paul believed in a false god called Aqua Buddha would get them votes. Anybody getting their hopes up for Hollywood star Ashley Judd becoming a senator in Kentucky anytime soon should probably temper their expectations. The fact she was born in California, lives in Tennessee part of the year(for tax purposes most likely), and Scotland the rest of the time probably wont help either.

But yea, speaking of unconstitutional, how about DHS as a whole? This seems like rather small potatoes when you look at the bigger picture.

So, in a way, that website actually twisted some facts just to grab attention. And so all this drama was really unnecessary.

I hate when that happens.

Can you have so much as a -single- instance of anyone convicted and imprisoned under this law. Be specific. Give a reference from a public archive or official source.

ruveyn

I'm going to try to find the bill itself online and make sense of all this.

Best Regards,

Jake

It is a ridiculous law. Has anyone been prosecuted or convicted under it?

ruveyn

Ha ha, kentucky, what a terrible state.....I don't see who in their right mind would live there, and that was my opinion even before I saw this. Though I don't see any mention of anyone specifically getting arrested for it. Some laws exist but aren't really used or are now out of date so maybe its something like that.

From what I learned from American Government, Kentucky can create it own sets of laws and constitution and things of that nature.
Each State has it's own set of Laws, Codes, etc. I'm not agreeing with Kentucky on this issue, but they have the right under eminent domain.
I think the original post was misleading and instigating though.

Best Regards,

Jake

Meh. There are all kinds of stupid laws still on the books that are clearly unconstitutional, and have never actually been enforced or tested.

It's against the law in my home state to whistle under water. Nobody's ever been arrested for it. If there were, that's a video I would love to see on youtube.

One of those stupid unenforced laws, there are websites filled with information about those.

However, i'm pretty sure the Tea Party/ American Taliban wants it kept on the book to keep atheists out of office because it's obvious that all atheists are left-wing Socialists/Nazis/Communist/ Fascists.

I wish people would read more the thread title and a couple lines of the first post.