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    step in teh right direction?

    West Virginia is now higher on my list of states

    CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two days after the end of the legislative session, state lawmakers are discovering something few were aware of: They voted to make English the official language of West Virginia.

    By ERIK SCHELZIG, Associated Press Writer

    The language amendment was quietly inserted into a bill addressing the number of members that cities can appoint to boards of parks and recreation. Among mundane details about record-keeping, the amendment adds the provision that "English shall be the official language of the State of West Virginia."

    Senate Majority Whip Billy Wayne Bailey successfully offered that change to House Bill 2782 amid a flurry of bills moving back and forth between the House and Senate on Saturday, the last night of the 60-day legislative session.

    "I just told the members that the amendment clarifies the way in which documents are produced," Bailey, a Democrat, said Monday.

    House Majority Leader Rick Staton recommended that his chamber agree with the Senate's changes. But Staton, also a Democrat, said he was unaware of the substance of the amendment until asked about it by The Associated Press Monday evening.

    Efforts to make English the state's official language have been introduced annually since the late 1990s. A group called U.S. English has championed the cause.

    "I think it's wrong that's something like that was snuck into that bill in the last minute," said House Judiciary Chairman Jon Amores, who helped kill an earlier proposal to forbid any state or local agency from having to print documents in any language but English.

    A spokeswoman for Gov. Joe Manchin could not immediately be reached for comment.

    Andrew Schneider, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia, said English-only laws are based on the false premise that immigrants will not learn English without government coercion.

    "And English-only laws do nothing constructive to increase English proficiency. They simply discriminate and punish those who have not yet learned English," Schneider said.

    being from a community that has declined due to the non-english speaking peoples, i applaud this decision (even though it may have sneakily been added).

    i don't want you all to think that i am anti-immigration though. im all for escaping poverty and persecution, but im against totally expecting you can live the same as you did in your former country. you have to adapt and take on some of the customs of the land thats abetting your escape.

    i wonder how this will affect the future.
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    Re: step in teh right direction?

    Originally posted by VHdamaco
    Andrew Schneider, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia, said English-only laws are based on the false premise that immigrants will not learn English without government coercion.

    Let's see...

    Here in New York City we allow translators to go into a voting booth with them, we give them every material they could ever want in their language, we have translated broadcasts of everything...yeah, you can live here in this city without learning English. And I don't see many jumping to learn it.
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    As long as these foreign babes know how to scream "oh God yes" in English, they're fine by me. Pass me some skittles and Pepsi, I feel a hard on coming on!
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    True story...

    A few years ago, one of the rabid right state senators here in Washington tried to pass one of those "English only" bills. When he was asked, in a hearing, what his justification was for the bill, his answer was...

    "If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for me!"

    Needless to say, the bill didn't pass. And so far they don't have an "Aramaic as a second language" bill either, even after the Mel Gibson movie.
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    Originally posted by FORD
    True story...

    A few years ago, one of the rabid right state senators here in Washington tried to pass one of those "English only" bills. When he was asked, in a hearing, what his justification was for the bill, his answer was...

    "If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for me!"

    Needless to say, the bill didn't pass..
    Who the HELL said that? When was this???
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    So they have to start speaking English down there?
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    Maybe your altar(sic) ego JC can stumble in here with a ye and thou pitter patter!

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