if you live in kentuky or just going on through.
be aware if your an atheist you can go to jail..
talk about breaking freedom of religion when we want
freedom from religion. the only minor thing about Christianity
i like is Christmas a stolen holiday i love the holidays like everyone else.
i wont say have a have a happy non denominational holiday, ill say merry christmas or happy holidays. or my favorite this one happy stolen pegan holiday.

As far as I know (this was passed in 2006, I think) it is not illegal to be an atheist unless you work for the Kentucky Department of Homeland Security

(October 23, 2014 at 1:23 pm)FifthElement Wrote: As far as I know (this was passed in 2006, I think) it is not illegal to be an atheist unless you work for the Kentucky Department of Homeland Security

oh snap.

Um..I'm pretty sure you can't be sent to jail for being an atheist, even in Kentucky.

(October 23, 2014 at 1:27 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Um..I'm pretty sure you can't be sent to jail for being an atheist, even in Kentucky.

(October 23, 2014 at 1:33 pm)dyresand Wrote:

(October 23, 2014 at 1:27 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Um..I'm pretty sure you can't be sent to jail for being an atheist, even in Kentucky.

Oh, you mean this old thing.

http://www.alternet.org/belief/year-jail...-violating

Please try not to sensationalize breaches of religious freedom, the theists do that enough for everyone. The law has nothing to do with private citizens of Kentucky. It's just a requirement that the offices of Homeland Security put up a plaque outside their buildings acknowledging God, and if an office refuses to do this then they are breaking the ordinance, which carries a (maximum) penalty of a year in prison. Is it stupid? Yes. Is it unconsitutional? Obviously, and it won't stand up against any sort of rational court examination. But it's not "If you're an atheist you can go to jail", and we'd do better without the sensationalism. Even the reporting outlet at the bottom of the page acknowledges they made a large error in the headline and first paragraph of the article.

Try a little skepticism~

Also, this story is a couple years old, I'd be interested to see if Kentucky just quietly backed off the law to avoid a nationally disgraceful lawsuit going to the supreme court.

(October 23, 2014 at 1:42 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote:

(October 23, 2014 at 1:33 pm)dyresand Wrote:

Oh, you mean this old thing.

http://www.alternet.org/belief/year-jail...-violating

Please try not to sensationalize breaches of religious freedom, the theists do that enough for everyone. The law has nothing to do with private citizens of Kentucky. It's just a requirement that the offices of Homeland Security put up a plaque outside their buildings acknowledging God, and if an office refuses to do this then they are breaking the ordinance, which carries a (maximum) penalty of a year in prison. Is it stupid? Yes. Is it unconsitutional? Obviously, and it won't stand up against any sort of rational court examination. But it's not "If you're an atheist you can go to jail", and we'd do better without the sensationalism. Even the reporting outlet at the bottom of the page acknowledges they made a large error in the headline and first paragraph of the article.

Try a little skepticism~

Also, this story is a couple years old, I'd be interested to see if Kentucky just quietly backed off the law to avoid a nationally disgraceful lawsuit going to the supreme court.

personally speaking if me or you went to jail in kentucky for not saying god or acknowledging god is all powerful and spend jail time for 12 months we would be rich that state would not have penny by the time w are done.

But that's not possible, that's not what the law says.

(October 23, 2014 at 1:51 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: But that's not possible, that's not what the law says.

damn.. this is ridiculous

What is?