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Opinion: Clint’s Clips: Legislature officially trivializes Bible by making it one of 10 state books

Contributed Photo/Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed legislation this week, making a version of the Bible one of 10 texts to be tabbed state books.
Contributed Photo/Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed legislation this week, making a version of the Bible one of 10 texts to be tabbed state books. Contributed Photo/Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed legislation this week, making a version of the Bible one of 10 texts to be tabbed state books.

One of 10 books

It was sad to us that Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed the bill enshrining a version of the Bible and nine other texts as official state books, and that all but one member of the Hamilton County delegation supported the measure.

The move, we feel, was virtue signalling by state legislators in the extreme and a dubious apparent first for any state in the country.

For years, legislators attempted to make the Bible the one and only state book. Finally, a ruling from the state attorney general said doing so was unconstitutional.

But where there’s a will, there’s a way.