Oh for fucks sake!!!

If it were not part of the U.S. Mississippi would rank below Haiti in education and economics. It would be a fourth world country.

Part of the reason Mississippi ranks the lowest in terms of education and economy...those who are educated and employable generally leave so there are not enough to keep such nonsense from happening after a while...the gap widens even more for that state to catch up to this century

Jeez. I just moved here in November & believe me, it's already bad enough! One of my kids' teachers invites students to pray before tests. My son says she doesn't lead them in a specific prayer but just pauses for a while. I wonder if any of the kids pray aloud? If I wasn't planning on getting out of here in a few months I might bother saying something or asking some questions, since it seems a slippery slope to me if nothing else.

This place is pretty bad--I hear they are the last state to have the confederate flag on their state flag. It's really very primitive here--for example, there are railroad tracks all over the place & no arms come down when a train is coming. There are flashing lights where they cross main roads, but on small roads like the one right in front of my kids' school there are just wooden signs, no lights, bells or anything...really bizarre.

Do these people choose not to read the Constitution? This is the most absurd thing I have ever heard to be enacted in our country. These people never paid attention in history class to see how religion was a chain around Old Europe 's neck and how the people who came here came to avoid that chain.

Its Mississippi. Sometimes I wonder if we wouldn't have been better off to just let the south secede.

This is the type of crap a lot of MS reps waste time on instead of improving educational opportunities and reducing proverty... BTW the guy proposing this is a minister.

You can't force people to take the pledge. This is long-standing law, same for displays of the ten commandments in public schools.

A state that is near last in everything you want to be first in but they have time for this ?‍

What do you expect. This is Mississippi. They're still stuck on the pre-WWII era. They will probably the last state in the Union to join the 21st Century and that won't probably be until 2100. Lol

This is never going to happen. A few years ago a judge lost his seat for posting the ten commandments on the wall. There is a lot of precedent in the law for this.