Why History is Not a Good Excuse for a Bad Idea
Adding a law to the state books every so often that puts a new twist on old time religion by Louisiana’s congresspersons is always considered in good form by them, as doing so publicly affirms their loyalty and reverence to the gods in the Bible, and encourages, by the force of law, Louisiana citizens to do the same. Since the early 1980s, one fundamentalist Christian-based law after another has been heaped on the Louisiana statutes, and most of them remain….