In God, Kentucky Trusts

By BJ

Apparently Kentucky is still a little unclear about that whole, “separation of church and state”, thing.

An atheists-rights group is suing the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security because state law requires the agency to stress "dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the Commonwealth."

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Edwin Kagin, a Boone County lawyer and the national legal director of American Atheists, said he was appalled to read in the Herald-Leader last week that state law establishes praising God — and installing a plaque in God's honor — as the first duty of the Homeland Security Office.

Because apparently looking out for actual security threats just wouldn’t make sense. But wait! There’s more!

"This is recognition that government alone cannot guarantee the perfect safety of the people of Kentucky," Riner said last week.

Riner said he expects Homeland Security to include language recognizing God's benevolent protection in its official reports and other materials — sometimes the agency does, and sometimes it doesn't — and to maintain a plaque with that message at the state's Emergency Operations Center in Frankfort.

All that nonsense aside, I do think this is pushing things

The plaintiffs ask for the homeland security law to be stripped of its references to God. They also ask for monetary damages, claiming to have suffered sleeping disorders and "mental pain and anguish."

Do like the last bit though

"Plaintiffs also suffer anxiety from the belief that the existence of these unconstitutional laws suggest that their very safety as residents of Kentucky may be in the hands of fanatics, traitors or fools," according to the suit.

And quite possibly all three.

Comments

[Gonz O'Lager]

O I do ask you go easy on some of us in the Commonwealth. We are not all cut from the same cloth as the Atheists or the nimrods who drew up this Homeland Security clause. Some of us are freethinking individuals, philosophers and loonies.