Every Monday at Reran Tragedy, Editor-in-Chief Cal Alabaster Jr. draws on his considerable experience in Southern politics to round up news, notes, and blatantly pasted-in press releases that readers may have otherwise missed.
Despite a Republican supermajority and the support of the Christian Coalition of Alabama, a bill to rename and renovate the RSA Tower in Mobile as the "RSA Jesus Tower" so that it "doesn't look so much like a big, gay pointy Muslim penis temple" surprisingly was a nonstarter in the Legislature in this spring's session.
MONTGOMERY — Christian political groups and deranged church leaders across the state say they are deeply upset that the Republican supermajority in the Alabama Legislature spent its last few weeks in Montgomery doing mostly important things instead of ramming a perverse form of Christianity proselytizing down Alabama residents’ throats.
While measures attempting to ratchet up the difficulty of getting divorces and some new abortion restrictions at least saw movement, church leaders say that they expected much more unhinged Christianity-based edicts to come spewing out of the Legislature this session.
Instead, legislators spent much of the last few weeks of the session trying to find feasible budget and immigration solutions that would be palatable to the conservative voters who elected them. (more…)
