Posted on 04/25/2007 12:06:30 PM PDT by Kimmers
A bill removing words such as idiot, lunatic and insane from the pages of the Ohio Revised Code got final approval from the Senate today.
Ohio law refers to an idiot nine times. The word lunatic appears six times, while more than 50 instances of the term insane can be found in decades-old laws written to describe people suffering from a mental illness.
House Bill 53, which passed 32-0, will remove those words and others, replacing them with inoffensive phrases. Gov. Ted Strickland will sign the bill, a spokesman said.
The changes will make Ohio law more sensitive and "help to reduce the stigma of mental illness," said Sen. Robert F. Spada, R-North Royalton.
Removing the words from state law does not change the Ohio Constitution, where Article 5, Section 6 is titled "Idiots or insane persons."
The section includes this sentence: "No idiot, or insane person, shall be entitled to the privileges of an elector." Another section of the constitution, on public institutions, uses the phrase "insane, blind, and deaf and dumb."
There are currently no efforts to change the constitution's language.
Today's vote marks just the second bill to pass the legislature this year. The other was the transportation budget at the end of March.
Self-serving motives?
SO? Just call them crazy.
I guess so. Democrat voters after all are idiots.
The terms were created by the early Eugenicists.
Now THERE'S a good idea.
“No idiot, or insane person, shall be entitled to the privileges of an elector.”
But there is an exception to serve as an elected official.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
That’s insane - I guess those words hit too close to home eh?
What a bunch of morons.
If they had to remove the insane idiots from the legislature it would get real lonely there.
I guess they should just all go **** themselves... with their expletives of course...
They're disbarring Dennis Kucinich?
Idiot and lunatic, being fairly subjective nouns, I can see, But not insane.
There are some truly mucked-up folk up there that really don't know that whacking folk is not right.
Can they replace them with “retard” and “faggot”?
“But there is an exception to serve as an elected official.”
‘Stupidity is not a handicap in politics’ — Napoleon
Can we use the words psycho, dullards, and liberals instead?
Looks like a R is responsible for this bill, though.
Damn, Its about time this issue was addressed, after all it is what these A**Clowns were elected for.
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