Proposed Missouri Resolution Stirs Up Blogosphere

In the Missouri legislature, the House Rules Committee has recommended approval of House Concurrent Resolution 13 that declares:

we stand with the majority of our constituents and exercise the common sense that voluntary prayer in public schools and religious displays on public property are not a coalition of church and state, but rather the justified recognition of the positive role that Christianity has played in this great nation of ours, the United States of America.

One of the introductory "Whereas" clauses in the resolution declares, "our forefathers of this great nation of the United States recognized a Christian God and used the principles afforded to us by Him as the founding principles of our nation." The Resolution has been commented upon by more blogs than usual, in part because the first web posting about the resolution, by KMOV-TV, was headlined (inaccurately) "State Bill Proposes Christianity Be Missouri’s Official Religion".