[Vision2020] North Carolina Weighs Ban on Electricity, Soap

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 May 9, 2012 North Carolina Weighs Ban on Electricity, Soap Amendment One
Supporters Push New Law

NORTH CAROLINA (*The Borowitz
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*) – Flush with victory from yesterday’s statewide vote, supporters of
North Carolina’s Amendment One today moved forward with a bold proposal to
ban electricity and soap.

Cal Pinckton, a leading proponent of Amendment One who has helped craft the
new law, says the principles behind it are simple: “If the Bible doesn’t
mention something, it’s against the law, and the Bible makes no mention of
either soap or electricity.”

He adds that North Carolina will “still have plenty of stuff that the Bible
does mention, like boils and locusts.”

While some critics of the proposed law said that it could be damaging to
North Carolina’s economy since it would drive away fanciers of soap and
electricity, Mr. Pinckton sees it differently.

“I think we’ll see a huge boom in tourism,” he says.  “North Carolina is on
its way to becoming one great big old timey theme park, like Colonial
Williamsburg.”

But Mr. Pinckton is careful to emphasize that under the proposed law, there
would be certain situations in which the use of electricity would be
permitted: “You could still use electricity for things that are explicitly
mandated by the Bible, like transvaginal ultrasounds.” *Get a free
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