"...Church and State....Even When The State Is Mississippi..."

Two ways you'll never get rich.

Betting on horses.

Betting on elections.

Mississippi, to the surprise/chagrin of those who thought the passage of the "Personhood" measure was a slam dunk, proved, once again, the pitfalls of betting on anything the electorate gets a whack at.

For those unfamiliar with the measure, here's a morning after perspective.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/09/what-happened-to-and-whats-next-for-failed-personhood-measure/?hpt=hp_c1

The only thing sure in cases like this is that no one can, with any empirical accuracy, be sure exactly why the measure failed.

And paring it down to a single cause is, obviously, a slippery slope.

That said, here's a single cause.

Regardless of any best intentions from anyone along either side of any ideological line, trying to legislate issues of morality and/or spirituality is an exercise in futility.

Admittedly, putting like that is simplistic.

Here's a thing about the thing, though.

Sometimes, things really are just that simple.