(January 24, 2014 at 6:36 pm)FlyingNarwhal Wrote: Yeah Nebraska definitely won't. That's why I don't think he's gonna follow through with this. In fact, I'd put money down that he'll be a born again christian by the end of his term, just so he can keep his job. I agree with the bill, but that's gonna be a career killer for him, at least in that state.
I have my doubts about that.
Quote:Ernie Chambers is arguably the highest-ranking openly-atheist politician in the country right now. The African-American Nebraska State Senator served for 38 years (beginning in 1970), making him the longest-serving senator in the state’s history, until he was term-limited out in 2008. When he was eligible to run again in 2012, he did so and won easily.
Quote:This isn’t Chambers’ first public battle against religion. In 2007, he famously sued God just to make a statement. Last year, during a filibuster, he remarked that the Mafia has higher standards than the Catholic Church hierarchy because if their members were “raping children, they’d off them.” And last March, he expertly took down an “ex-gay” man as well as a Christian psychologist making arguments against pro-LGBT legislation.
Yeah, this is a guy who has, and needs, no fucks to give.
