Do not assume the nitwittery was strictly based in religion. They had some funny ideas about trains that go faster than twenty miles per hour, and what constituted proper signaling at an intersection, also.
> Do not assume the nitwittery was strictly based in religion.
Oh, I don't think a congress critter or other ballot louse *needs* religion in order to be a flaming imbecile who would compare unfavorably to a rabid weasel in both deportment and common sense.
I just know that it is one of their more common excuses.