Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen
refuses to defend his own State's eminently defensible domestic partnership registry, but here's the tale of a fearless lawyer down south who'll go to bat for an
uncommonly silly law with some powerful and compelling reasoning:
A Kentucky judge on Wednesday struck down a 2006 state law that required the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to stress "dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the commonwealth."
Attorney General Jack Conway defended the law in court, arguing that striking down such laws risked creating a secular society that is wholly separated from religion.
Because until 2005, that Kentucky was a freaking godless Hell.
If almighty God is essential to national security, he must've fallen asleep at his post a few years ago, and a few years before that, and that, and...
ReplyDeleteIf almighty God is essential to national security, he must've fallen asleep at his post a few years ago, and a few years before that, and that, and...
ReplyDeleteNo, no, no! God didn't protect us because we weren't praising him enough. You see, God is like a bearded, cosmic Tinkerbell. If you don't clap—erm, pray hard enough, he doesn't protect you from all the hazards of the outside world.