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Truely becoming one of the few Southern states that has kept its ideals

What "ideals" are those?

Suppressing the individual to please the wannabe theocrats?

Look, I'm pro-South, pro-life and pro-religion all the way, but what these idiot SC legislators are doing is the exact reason that our Founders were against State-sponsored religion.

"Look, I'm pro-South, pro-life and pro-religion all the way, but what these idiot SC legislators are doing is the exact reason that our Founders were against State-sponsored religion."

Getting a tattoo is a persnonal matter that is no concern of government. For myself, I'd never do it.

idiot SC legislators are doing is the exact reason that our Founders were against State-sponsored religion.

Well that's not entirely true now is it? The introduction of a required religion was limited of course at the federal level, but as evidenced by several of the states establishing official churches (off the top of my head Massachusetts' Congregational church and South Carolina's proclamation that Christian Protestant was the official religion in that state) in the decades after 1789 and their separate state constitutions requiring belief in God (Almighty God in some cases insinuating a Judeo-Christian God) before holding office

This is a states' rights issue as far as I'm concerned, not a religious or artistic issue. When enough South Carolinians are fed up with the ban, then they'll change the law. Until then, it's up to South Carolinians whether or not they ban tattoos. The Supreme Court declined to hear it, most likely because the Court doesn't see any need to hear it. I hear you can only buy liquor in those little, tiny airport bottles in SC, too, but whose business is it but the people of South Carolina?

I'm from North Carolina, and I say this tattoo ban is purely a South Carolina issue and non-South Carolinians should stay out of it. Anyone who just can't stand for their skin to be un-tattooed any longer can hop up here to NC to get tattooed, just like if I feel the overwhelming need to buy a lottery ticket, I can go to SC or VA to buy one. I have no idea how much tattoos cost, but if you've got the money to waste on one, you've got the money to travel to get one.

Having said that, I see nothing wrong with tattoos in moderation. My granddaddy had the obligatory anchor, mermaid and heart tattooed on his forearms and upper arms from his Coast Guard days and so I'm used to seeing them.

As far as tattoos being a pagan, heathen practice, well that's merely their origin. So are wedding cakes. Some of the best Christians I ever knew were tattooed. Tattoos in and of themselves aren't going to keep anyone out of heaven, that's for sure.

I think this whole thing is a tempest in a teapot, on both sides of the argument.