Alabama has totally removed the Separation of Church and State clause in the Constitution, and other states will follow, behind Boss Hogg and his minions.

 The Fondes, he wrote, agreed to let the center “automatically destroy” embryos that remained frozen longer than five years. The LePages opted to donate unused embryos to medical research. The Aysennes agreed to allow any “‘abnormal embryos’ to be experimented on for ‘research’ purposes and then ‘discarded.’ ”

Can someone please explain to me how frozen embryos are legally people but can be experimented upon or discarded when they are no longer wanted? None of this makes any sense.

The theocratic impulses of Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker were fully, and frighteningly, on display.

In a separate special concurrence, Parker sounded as if he were writing a sermon for “The 700 Club” instead of ruling on a question of law.

“Human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God, who views the destruction of His image as an affront to Himself,” Parker wrote. “Even before birth, all human beings bear the image of God, and their lives cannot be destroyed without effacing his glory.”

To which one can only reply: Are you freaking kidding me? Where, in the mind of a judge like that, is the line that separates church and state? Where is the respect for differing religious beliefs, or no beliefs at all?