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On Wednesday, the Missouri House of Representatives held hearings on a proposed constitutional amendement to prohibit state courts from enforcing Sharia law. How did it go? Here’s Republican State Rep. Don Wells, who introduced the bill, via the Post-Dispatch:

“This is to protect the people of America,” Wells said of his bill. He went on to compare Sharia law to a disease, like polio. Rep. Jason Kander, D-Kansas City, stopped him to confirm. “Sharia law is like polio?” Kander asked. “Absolutely, as far as I’m concerned in this country,” Wells responded.

It’s actually not a terrible analogy, but I’d tweak it a little bit: Sharia is a lot like polio in that it poses absolutely no threat to the United States. Fixed.

To refresh your memory, when a similar bill was introduced earlier this month, its GOP sponsors, State Rep. Paul Curtman and Speaker of the House Stephen Tilley, held a press conference in which Curtman failed to offer any real-life examples that would actually justify the law: