Way to go, fellow Missourians. Just wait until the girls in your kid's school are wearing full hijabs and the boys turbans as expressions of their faith, just like the tibowing and crosses the Christians wear.

Allah help us all.

I can not believe more people have not seen thru Todd Akins Line of C**p. He is all about himself and having a personal agenda against the democrats. Politicians like him are why we can get any thing accomplished. Also the platform of being all about the veterans is a lie he won't even call you back if the media is not present.

On mini news debate, the selected Amendment supporter stated that we all already had the religious rights in the bill; they wanted to "highlight" them. Meanwhile, I do fear the abuses students will attempt to avoid class work. Even the supporter in the debate said they expect things to get straightened out in legal suits about this part of the law. More litigation. Meanwhile, what happens in the classroom? Great.

Missouri citizens just voted for millions of dollars in legal fees, much of which will be paid to out of state lawyers - money that could have actually done something useful.

We always like the simple solutions. It's almost always wrong, but it is simple.

From the Missouri School Board Association (non-partisan viewpoint)
http://www.msbanet.org/files/law_policy_labor/law/ReligiousFreedomAmendmentHJR2.pdf

"As you can see, the proposed language has some very interesting nuances
that could conflict with the U.S. Supreme Court’s interpretation of the First
Amendment. Because of this conflict, school districts will face confusion in
developing policies to meet the requirements of the new law and will face
additional classroom burdens in implementing the new requirements. Also,
districts will likely face lawsuits based upon individuals attempting to define
exactly what the new law means and which law, federal or state, will govern.
Also remember this is a proposal seeking to amend the state constitution. It
is not a proposed statute. Once passed, a constitution is difficult to amend. It is a
lengthy, time consuming and difficult process to even get a measure placed on a
ballot. Therefore, it is likely that, if passed, this amendment will be Missouri law
for quite some time."

Agreed as well. More needless cost and rule put on schools.

This part of the amendment: "That school children have the right to pray and acknowledge God voluntarily in their schools" seems to apply to private schools too, which has interesting ramifications.

And the last part about mandatory displaying the Bill of Rights in public schools - not really a big deal since it gets covered in curriculum and is in many classrooms already... but to me it seems like the silly sort of mandate that one would expect from an authoritarian-type goverment.