Congratulations to the State of Alabama for moving backwards by about 50 years!

Alabama, and the majority of its citizenry can pat themselves on the back for voting in such a way as to continue to be the butt of every "Southern" joke on any late night television show.

Alabama, besides helping reelect a president who has trampled environmental laws, started wars resulting in thousands upon thousands of deaths, helped all those poor CEO's get those tax breaks they had been missing, lost jobs, and, as many have said, generally made the world a more dangerous place, you have also taken a 50-year step into the past.

Alabama has placed a racist in place one of the Alabama Supreme Court. Tom Parker, who has been called, "a man not afraid of the [rebel] flag" won the election, placing Alabama back into the stereotypes that have haunted this state for years. Parker, who was endorsed by Roy Moore (another person so stuck in an ideology that law and logic have no meaning) and the (neo-secessionists and racists) League of the South, will now make sure that all White Anglo-Saxon Protestants who profess their faith and love for Jesus Christ will receive justice.

Not only did this state elect a bigot, it also voted "no" on Amendment 2, which would have deleted the Jim-Crow wording from the state's constitution. The wording that many of us had hoped would be deleted mandated poll taxes and segregated schools. Thank god that the federal laws already outdated those moronic ideas anyway, but just for once, I had hoped that Alabama would do the right thing and reject that stuff anyway.

The Christian Coalition and Roy Moore were very much against Amendment 2. They claimed that there was some wording added to the Amendment that could potentially raise taxes. Apparently, some of the wording that would be deleted said that the state does not have a duty to fund public education.

Apparently, throwing money at the Alabama education system has not fixed the problems. In Montgomery County, there is a 10% sales tax on everything. That is one of the highest sales tax rates in the country, but every year, our "leaders" tell us how much worse the education system is getting.

But really, this state voted for Bush, Parker and "no" on Amendment 2. How educated can we possibly be?

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As of now, the Amendment 2 vote has not been finalized, but it does not look good. The Montgomery Advertiser article "Amendment Two close to defeat" can be found here.