Ark. Votes Against Church-State Proposal

Something you may not have known about the large southeastern part of the United States is that it's inhabited by extremely religious people who are proud of their idiosyncratic historical misconceptions. Read this. The gist:

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The state House on Friday voted against affirming the separation of church and state in a resolution brought by a legislator who said he was fed up with a religious undertone at the Capitol.

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Republican Rep. Michael Lamoureux said [the introducing legislator's] resolution wasn't needed.

"It's clear that our founding fathers, that they wanted Christian beliefs," Lamoureux said. "The separation of church and state is not in our Constitution."