Tennessee politician Jerry Sexton is pushing to make The Holy Bible the official state book.
The Tennessean has the scoop: “It’s unclear how the proposal would meet a provision in Tennessee Constitution that states that ‘no preference shall ever be given, by law, to any religious establishment or mode of worship.'”
Tennessee is not the first state to consider The Bible as its state book. Last year, a Louisiana politician introduced a bill to make a specific copy of The Bible its official state book. The bill was withdrawn after a couple of weeks because apparently the bill became a “distraction.”