Forward into the past!

[neadods]

And not in a good way. Two votes, one past, one future, are marching states backwards a couple of centuries.

First Alabama refused to vote down segregation laws. Those who didn't want the racist amendment removed explained that it's not because of race, oh no, it's about education, and more specifically taxes. One of the most vocal opponents, Christian Coalition of Alabama President John Giles, meanwhile, predicted that Buskey will find it difficult to please all sides as long as he pushes any proposal to make public education a constitutionally guaranteed right.

What was that line from that Max Headroom episode? "Reading is a privilege and if you could afford to pay for an education you'd know that." Something to that effect?

Now there are rumblings that Florida will try to amend the state constitution in 2006 - to eliminate church/state separation.



Current Book: Going Postal by Pratchett

Comments

[kefiraahava.livejournal.com]

Oh, I definitely agree with you that it's mostly about religion/public school bashing. But I suspect there's another tentacle there that has to do with this particular type of religious attitude toward disability as well. It's all part of the same damn hydra.

*shakes head* Changing the constitution...ye gods. I hope the expat New Yorkers, the native Floridians who don't like to be told what to do by ANYONE up to and including hurricane forecasters (until this year*very wry grin*), and everyone else with a free-thinking brain/spirit down there all unite to defeat it.

[maryannegruen.livejournal.com]

It's not just one group that they're looking to disqualify. It's anyone that they deem inferior or simply want to climb over. It's survival of the fittest. And in my opinion, it's anything *but* Christian.