Four years after Tennessee’s governor vetoed a bill that would have made the Bible the “official state book,” the sponsor of that bill is trying again. State Rep. Jerry Sexton, a Republican, filed a bill Wednesday that would designate “the Holy Bible as the official state book,” according to a description of the bill on the legislature’s website. In 2016, then-Gov. Bill Haslam, a Republican, vetoed a similar bill by Sexton. But he was ineligible to run for re-election after serving two terms and was followed by a new governor, Bill Lee, who also is a Republican. Lee has not taken a position on Sexton’s bill. Sexton previously said his bill would acknowledge the role the Bible has played in the state’s past. “There is no denying our history,” Sexton said in 2015, according to Baptist Press . “The […]
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