That's just wrong.

No, there doesn't appear to be anything in the state constitution that says where the oath of office should be administered, so it's not wrong.

It remains to be seen what message, if any, Mr. Zachary intends to send by this choice, but the act in and of itself is not wrong.

lol

It's credibility and showing respect : I'm sure Rev. Jackson have done other like things and nobody gave a hoot in hell about it.

I just think it's important to pick your fights.

When and where do we start picking them?

We should have started picking fights eight or ten years ago when the radical right wing laid plans to take over our state.

Instead, we now have tort "reform" that limits the ability for regular folks to get compensated for damages caused to them by bad actor corporations, weakened worker compensation, attacks on labor and labor unions, higher taxes for veterans and seniors and tax breaks for the wealthy and big corporations, outsourced government, the first steps toward privatizing public schools, constitutional amendments denying the civil rights of same sex couples and limiting a woman's right to choose, guns everywhere, "leaders" who refuse to provide federally funded health care to low income residents, etc. etc. etc.

First baptist Concord stands firmly behind him in his belief against affordable healthcare for all. No wonder Jesus wept.

learn the Bible.

If you want to be a legislator, learn the Constitution.

At a minimum, learn the difference.

What you often consider your strength can be a weakness to be used against you. I would keep that in mind.

Zachary is the fourth consecutive TN House District 14 Member to also be a member of First Baptist Concord.

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welp, hornback has to generate content for his blog somehow.
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Maybe we should buy an ad.

Because Randy asked in the past that I do that. As a blogger, I have and will refuse ads.

I actually don't think it's a big deal. It's totally in form with Zachary to get sworn in at FBC, which I've pointed out before is the largest congregation in Knox County, that happens to be located in the 14th, so yeah. Of course he got sworn in there. And to his credit, he has never pretended to be anything other than a conservative fundamentalist ideologue.

What does bother me is that the people who think like him really cannot see any distinction between being for the separation of church and state, and being anti-Christian. They think it's the same thing, which exposes a troubling inability to understand basic constitutional concepts. But more and more, and faster and faster, that's America today.

This is an aside, and honestly I'm not trying to annoy anyone, but this really happened. Several years ago I was looking at the web site for the after-school program at FBC b/c at the time my stepson was enrolled there (they really do have an excellent daycare). FBC has a parochial school, and the school web site included information about an "international" pageant of some sort where students dressed in the costume of a given country and talked about its religion. Russia's "religion" was listed as "communist." Now, this was in 2008, about 20 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, and at the height of Russia's capitalist explosion, and during a time when the Russian Orthodox church had all but completely restored itself as the cultural and spiritual leader of millions of Russians. But FBC was still teaching its pupils that Russia was communist, and that communism was a religion.

Anyway, like I said, given his constituency's grasp of basic civics and history, Zachary might as well have taken the oath of office while while being dunked in the baptismal tub.

Jason has said a few times he believes in personal freedom and libery, my gut feeling is that he will push for laws that do the opposite. I just don't like Concord Baptist trying to push their version of Christianity down our throats this next legislative season in 2016.

I vote at a Baptist church. Let's be consistent. If it's unacceptable to be sworn into public office at a church, should we really be utilizing religious facilities to cast our votes?

Agreed. At some point maybe we don't keep investing in the battle, but somebody needs to speak up and it costs very little to do so. We're most probably in the minority, but can claim being right on the merits.

Our polling location used to be in a church. A guy down the street had just moved here from Minnesota or some place up there. He said he never imagined he'd be standing in a church in the Bible Belt voting for liquor by the drink.

with everything headed toward privatization, I figure it's only a matter of time before they'll start charging us to vote.

I believe the election commission has been encouraged to find polling places that are not schools due to security and parking concerns. I think that's impractical in terms of cost. It shouldn't be that hard simply to not have class, or only have in-service on Election Day. There aren't that many of 'em.