Tennessee Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Make Bible The Official State Book

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Tennessee state Rep. Jerry Sexton (R) on Tuesday introduced legislation that would designate the Bible as the “official state book.”

The Tennessee Constitution states that “no preference shall ever be given, by law, to any religious establishment or mode of worship.”

A Mississippi lawmaker last month introduced legislation that would make the Bible the state book.

And after a Louisiana lawmaker introduced a similar measure last year, he quickly pulled the measure because he thought it had become a distraction.

H/t Huffington Post

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  1. Will anyone ask him which version? There are at least 30 that are translated into English.

  2. Attention whoring; nothing more, nothing less.

  3. It will be the King Douche version.

  4. I suggest that they make the “I’m going to hell because I worship a book and not Jesus” version of the Bible the official book.

  5. I suggest that they make the “I’m going to hell because I worship a book and not Jesus” version of the Bible the official book.

    The idea of a book, to be specific. So few have ever read it in detail.

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