{"id":601,"date":"2009-05-22T11:51:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T11:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/05\/the-bible-bill-2010-should-be-the-year-of-the-constitution-congressman.html"},"modified":"2009-05-22T11:51:48","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T11:51:48","slug":"the-bible-bill-2010-should-be-the-year-of-the-constitution-congressman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/the-bible-bill-2010-should-be-the-year-of-the-constitution-congressman.html","title":{"rendered":"The Bible Bill? 2010 Should be the Year of the Constitution, Congressman"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Politico<\/a>, A  Republican Congressman from Georgia, <\/b>Paul Broun<\/a> , wants to pass a Bible Bill<\/a> To declare 2010 the “Year of the Bible.” Nothing against the good book, but legislatively 2010 should not<\/i> be the year of this book:<\/p>\n

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Instead, lawmakers should make 2010 (and every other year) the year of this<\/b><\/i> book(let):<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Does anyone out there care about the separation of church and state? Read it, congressman.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Politico, A  Republican Congressman from Georgia, Paul Broun , wants to pass a Bible Bill To declare 2010 the “Year of the Bible.” Nothing against the good book, but legislatively 2010 should not be the year of this book: Instead, lawmakers should make 2010 (and every other year) the year of this book(let):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interdependent-activism-politics"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Bible Bill? 2010 Should be the Year of the Constitution, Congressman - One City<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/the-bible-bill-2010-should-be-the-year-of-the-constitution-congressman.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Bible Bill? 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