A South Dakota state representative will ask her colleagues to vote on a proposed law on Monday that will punish anyone replicating the state seal without its reference to God, and carries a possible fine and one year in jail.
As reported at the Friendly Atheist, Rep. Sue Peterson (R-Sioux Falls) has submitted House Bill 1102 that will, “… clarify certain provisions regarding the great seal of South Dakota and to establish a penalty for misrepresentation of the great seal.”
“It’s not a road that’s constitutional and it’s not a road we want to go down,” Libby Skarin, policy director for the American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota said in a statement, reports the Argus Leader.
