Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, in his first remarks after being elected Wednesday afternoon, told Members of Congress that “Scripture” and “the Bible” are clear that they have been “ordained” by God.“I want to tell all my colleagues here what I told the Republicans in that room last n...

Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, in his first remarks after being elected Wednesday afternoon, told Members of Congress that “Scripture” and “the Bible” are clear that they have been “ordained” by God.

  • @GraniteMEnglish
    8•8 months ago

    The Vermont Constitution has a much more explicit freedom from religion:

    Article 3. [Freedom in religion; right and duty of religious worship]

    That all persons have a natural and unalienable right, to worship Almighty God, according to the dictates of their own consciences and understandings, as in their opinion shall be regulated by the word of God; and that no person ought to, or of right can be compelled to attend any religious worship, or erect or support any place of worship, or maintain any minister, contrary to the dictates of conscience, nor can any person be justly deprived or abridged of any civil right as a citizen, on account of religious sentiments, or peculia[r] mode of religious worship; and that no authority can, or ought to be vested in, or assumed by, any power whatever, that shall in any case interfere with, or in any manner control the rights of conscience, in the free exercise of religious worship. Nevertheless, every sect or denomination of christians ought to observe the sabbath or Lord’s day, and keep up some sort of religious worship, which to them shall seem most agreeable to the revealed will of God.

    • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿English
      10•8 months ago

      Everytime I hear of Vermont it feels like the only sane, progressive state in the US. It almost feels like a seperate country compared to everywhere else.

      What’s the opinion of it in the US?

      • @afraid_of_zombiesEnglish
        2•8 months ago

        It is entirely composed of a coat factory, an ice cream factory, and B&Bs.

        • DoubletwistEnglish
          5•8 months ago

          A few more brown folks here and there wouldn’t hurt.

          Be the change you want to see in the world.

          We’re the thinking of Vermont as a possible destination once my wife is eligible for her full retirement pension, and we can get out of this christo-conservative, handmaid’s-tale-wannabe, craphole of a state (Texas).

          We’re not ‘brown’ but it would still be nice if Vermont had some more diversity by the time we get there.

      • @HeyThisIsntTheYMCAEnglish
        2•8 months ago

        I’d move there if y’all had better winters and beaches.