WHAT CAN BE WRONG WITH SIMPLY ABDICATING TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION?
What the Governor is proposing is not just an Amendment but a REPEAL of our constitutional provision. The State would be abdicating ALL of its power in defining religious liberty to the FEDERAL COURTS. The state courts and the state legislature would have to defer to the federal courts in order to understand their own state protections. Although that may seem just fine to you today, what happens if the courts ‘interpretations change? Isn’t it better to have our own language for the State of Georgia? Also, almost 200 years ago, the citizens of Georgia set out certain protections in our constitution to protect religious freedom. Like in the majority of states, our State provision provides stronger religious liberty protections in its constitution than there are in the federal constitution. It is because of that provision that religion has flourished in the State of Georgia. There is no reason to strip away those protections. Such freedoms are easy to strip away, but difficult to reinstat
