And now Mississippi has passed Religious Freedom Protection Bill

[DC Al Fine]

This is a state version of the federal law passed in the 1990s that stopped the feds from prosecuting peyote use in the Native American Church.   Of course it couldn't be passed today because gay rights.

I swear the left's memory is getting shorter and shorter.

[DC Al Fine]

This is a state version of the federal law passed in the 1990s that stopped the feds from prosecuting peyote use in the Native American Church.   Of course it couldn't be passed today because gay rights.

I swear the left's memory is getting shorter and shorter.

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I guess you just ignored the fact that THIS EXACT EXAMPLE is specifically excluded from protections in this bill, per its authors? I guess all you cared about was getting in your little quip, facts be damned...

That's completely irrelevant to my point, which is that the the time between "bad idea" and "inalienable right" keeps shrinking.

Besides as shua said, its more important what a bill says than what some legislator wishes it to be.

[DC Al Fine]

"The bill will also add "In God We Trust" to the state seal."

I am now truly convinced we are in the death throes of the Christian Right.  A smile forms across my face and a single tear flows down my cheek. 

Was the Christian Right in its death throes when they forced Teddy Roosevelt to add that bit of sacrilegious triteness to the double eagle in 1908?

Were 1/3 of youngs identifying as "non-religious" in 1908?  http://www.pewforum.org/2012/10/09/nones-on-the-rise/  Hah!  Doubtful.  The Christian Right is grasping at what they have left... anti-gay legislation with some useless earmark to get God onto the state seal of the most socially conservative state in the nation. 

This is how irrelevant they have become on the national scale, shocking/delightful considering they had a U.S. President running on a platform of theocracy just 10 years ago.   

Stop using terms when you clearly don't know what they mean.