But a majority of lawmakers rejected an alternate proposal to expel Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton from the Arizona House.
PHOENIX — The state House voted Tuesday to censure Tucson Democratic Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton for what she said was a"playful'' act of moving and hiding the Bibles in the lounge used by lawmakers.
"It was the removing of Bibles and then shoving them under the cushions where members and guests sit, which compels other people to sit on their own sacred scriptures,'' Heap said."To do so is flagrantly offensive and something the House needs to take seriously.'' "This is a slippery, slippery, slippery slope in my opinion,'' he told colleagues."I do not like public shaming. I don't like it in schools, I don't like it in churches, and I darned sure don't like it as it's being used here as a weapon.''"It's only the Bible I've ever seen in the House lounge,'' not other holy books, said Tucson Rep. Nancy Gutierrez."So the righteous indignation is misplaced.
"It was never put into the Constitution and it should never be said in the government,'' she said of that phrase."We have the right to speak about religion in the public square. And we have a right to talk about it in our laws and as we make legislation,'' Parker said."It encompasses everything that we are.''
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