If you're not a Christian in South Carolina

[kierthos]

prepare to get hated on. Short version: SC Legislature allows for Jesus-themed license plates. Lawsuit is brought up by organization. Organization immediately starts getting hate mail.

See, it's shit like this that makes it so I'm not surprised that these whackjobs think moving here and trying to take over the legislature is possible. (Just to note, I am apparently still banned from posting on the Christian Exodus forums.)

Separation of Church and State, motherfuckers!

Comments

[the-corruption.livejournal.com]

Since when did the creation of a stupid license plate constitute the establishment of a religion???

It's a fucking license plate!?!?

Honestly, whether they make the plates of not has NOTHING to do with anyone out there except the people who want to buy them. And that it's christian has nothing to do with how I think. It could be a fucking Kwanzaa plate for all I care. Kwanzaa plate makes no inferences on my Christmas celebrations. It does not imply the SC gov't loves Kwanzaa more than X-mas. It means a bunch of people decided they wanted a Kwanzaa plate, and the government spotted a way to make a quick buck.

"The state has made believers of non-Christian faiths feel that they are second-class citizens," Lynn explained in an AU press release. "Under our Constitution, that’s impermissible."

No, stupid bitch, it means there's bunch of christians with some extra change. They'd make a Hindu one, but after production costs, verses the tiny number of SC Hindus, it wasn't economically FEASABLE. You want a Ganeshi plate? Vote more Hindus into office.

God, it's like this sort of stupidity is contagious.

[jimcyl.livejournal.com]

It's pretty simple. If you want to have Christian license plates, you need to allow for license plates proclaiming other faiths. Since the state doesn't, it's spending government money to promote a single religious viewpoint.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

Okay, here's why.

Under existing guidelines for vanity plates, personalized plates, and organizational plates, the only things allowed by the SC DMV in terms of images are the organization's official logo. (So, for example, a FedExKinko's license plate would have the multi-colored asterisk thingy.) You can't have other symbols, or icons, or even slogans. (Now you can have those on the little plastic/metal frames around the license plate, but I digress.)

The SC State Legislature enacted a law specfically to get around that, and the iconography on the license plate are things that wouldn't be allowed by the SC DMV if it were not for this law. And since they didn't pass a law allowing for say, a Muslin-themed license plate and a Jewish-themed license plate and a Mormon-themed license plate and whatever else (Atheist-themed? Would that be a normal license plate, or one with the Darwin-fish?), then it sure as hell looks like a preferential treatment of a particular religion.

Which is not allowed under the separation of church and state. If they had passed a law allowing for any religious group to submit their own theme plates, there probably wouldn't have been a lawsuit. (And, I would like to point out, there also wouldn't be all the wingnuts flying off the handle about the lawsuit. I may disagree with a lot of people, but I don't send them e-mails saying they're going to burn in Hell because their beliefs are different.)