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[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

“The safety and security of the Commonwealth cannot be achieved apart from reliance upon Almighty God as set forth in the public speeches and proclamations of American Presidents, including Abraham Lincoln’s historic March 30, 1863, presidential proclamation urging Americans to pray and fast during one of the most dangerous hours in American history, and the text of President John F. Kennedy’s November 22, 1963, national security speech which concluded: ‘For as was written long ago: Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.“

12 months for not believing displaying a plaque proclaiming your belief. Go Kentucky!

See Also: "Lawmaker in Kentucky Mixes Piety and Politics"

Update: This article discusses the 12 months part: http://www.alternet.org/belief/year-jail-not-stating-power-god-how-kentucky-office-homeland-security-may-be-violating

Comments

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

has anybody ever been charged?

while thats epically fucked up, i hope, very hard, that its on the books but never used. like jay walking.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

I wondered the same thing myself. I would suspect you would have to push it to be charged.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

also, i just reac the article you linked to. it says nothing about 12 months in prison....

also also, that dude is the Kentucky DEMOCRAT??

sweet lordy, whats their republican bible thumper look like?

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Good catch. I just learned of it myself.

http://www.alternet.org/belief/year-jail-not-stating-power-god-how-kentucky-office-homeland-security-may-be-violating

That mentions the 12 months thing.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

it seems however that the 12 month penalty is for not posting the plaque, not for not believing

it seems, by my read, that the law only requires action from the states DHS office people, and not everyone.

the OP implies if i walk down the street proclaiming my atheism they can arrest me.
the articles do NOT imply that.


the law is dumb, but not as broad as OP suggests....

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

it seems however that the 12 month penalty is for not posting the plaque, not for not believing

You're right. You just have to post a plaque declaring your believe is all. I mean, you're still allowed to think otherwise in private. But in public, we have to project the image we believe, but we can lie about it no problem. Taste the freedom!

"It is true that we do have a law in Kentucky that mandates that the executive director of the Office of Homeland Security publish a reference to 'Almighty God' in regards to the 'safety and security of the Commonwealth,'" which appears as a plaque at the entrance of the Emergency Operations Center. Violating this law, or any other statues required by the Kentucky Division of Emergency Management, could result in being found guilty of a Class A misdemeanor, which carries a sentence of up to one year in jail. As a result, the headline and the first line of the article have been revised.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

obviously i still disagree with the law, but proclaiming every atheist is commiting a crime is wrong

its a govt office thats forced to put up a plaque, not jailing all atheists

again, law is wrong, but be correct in how ya frame it? boy who cried wolf and all

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

I'll worry about this sort of thing when Satan destroys atheist China.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

There's some douchebag legislator in Arizona wanting to make it so that atheists can't graduate from high school.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Wow. That seems worth fighting.

Not to mention that nationalism inherent in that oath. It sounds like a military oath:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/01/25/arizona-republicans-propose-bill-that-would-not-allow-atheists-to-graduate-high-school/