Issue: Should Voters Amend State Constitution to Aid Biblical Speech?

Pastor Allan Esses of Irvine knows about freedom of religion, but he doesn’t think the California Constitution goes far enough to protect Christian speech.

He hopes to amend the Constitution via popular vote by taking out a sentence and adding this section:

We, the People of the State of California, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, in order to perpetuate His blessings do submit that it is not a crime, hate crime or unlawful for a person to use any part of the Bible's content as authority: and do submit that a person using any part of the Bible's content as authority may freely speak, pray, write, discuss, publish, preach, teach, hear, share his or her faith to proclaim Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father, engage in street witnessing, distribute written material or otherwise communicate any views on salvation, heaven, or abortion, adultery, alcoholism, anti-Semitism, astrology, bestiality, bigamy, bisexuality, blasphemy, civil unions, coarse jesting, cohabitation, coveting, cross-dressing., cults, drugs, drunkenness, extortion, euthanasia, evil, evolution, fornication, gay marriage, gender identity, hell, heresy, homosexuality, idolaters, idolatry, incest, lying, marriage, murder, necromancy, other religions, pornography, psychics, rape, reviling, sex, sexual immorality, sexual orientation, sodomy, sorcery, stealing, transgender, trans-sexuality, witchcraft, yoga, or sin at any public or private gatherings, school, church, or other place of worship, Bible Study group or sidewalk or in any communicative medium, the internet, satellite, television, film, theater, radio, videos, recording, newspapers, magazines, music, and periodicals or by means of a computer, electronic devise, telephone, cell phone or fax machine.

Secretary of State Debra Bowen says Esses and allies must collect 807,615 signatures by Dec. 2, 2013, to qualify the measure for a 2014 ballot.  Do they have a prayer?  Or will this effort fail as previous ones have to inject religion into public schools, etc.? Share your thoughts in the comments.