...speaking of freedom, safety…’n Jesus…(needless to say they should only be said together) Jen Hayden in Daily Kos reports that the Mississippi House just passed the 'Jesus Take the Wheel Act'.
Thank God for Mississippi, yet again tackling the Big Issues:
. Highest poverty rate in the nation…taking that on? Nope.
. 2nd highest dropout rate in the country? Addressing that? Nah.
. 2nd highest teen pregnancy rate anywhere? Hell no.
What’s more compelling than grinding poverty, child pregnancy, lousy education?
You foolish foolish fool..it’s the JESUS TAKES THE WHEEL ACT.
The Mississippi House just passed a bill (HB 132), nicknamed the "Jesus Take the Wheel Act", that “would exempt churches from commercial driver's license requirements, permitting small churches, some don't have people with commercial licenses at all, and they can pick a person to drive the bus,’” said the chair of the Mississippi House Transportation Committee.'
Mississippi law, now, mandates CDL-certified drivers for any vehicle transporting more than sixteen passengers, including the driver. The bill would amend that law to exempt church buses designed to carry thirty passengers or less. “Since the exemption would also include buses and large transport vehicles carrying children to and from events, not everyone is happy about the exemption: When contacted by The Clarion-Ledger, longtime CDL-certified driver Troy Coll of Hattiesburg called the measure potentially dangerous. ‘It’s trading the safety of everyone on the road for the convenience of those operating church vehicles, Since the bill covers vehicles up to thirty passengers, we're not just talking vans with extra rows of seats – these are buses, with long frames and much larger blind spots than passenger vehicles.’"
So, let me ask you: you gotta know some Jesus-driven Church gonna crash/kids gonna die…reminds me of the old Bluesman, Mississippi Slim’s number, EVERY BODY WANNA GET TO HEAVEN, NO BODY WANNA DIE.
So when…not if…when one of these, two of these, three of these blessed busses…oh…rams an RV/5 kids die…slams into a Sunday School picnic/5 kids die…plunges off the Tallahatchie Bridge and Billie Jo McCallister and five other new teen moms and their blessed bundles die….
What did Mississippi kids ever do to deserve legislators this idiotic?
And when they die, the Mississippi legislature will console the families with…what?
. the Devil did it?
. it’s God’s will?
. Jesus Was Asleep at the Wheel?