Reading the article, it seems more like it was passed to make sure corporations don't make microchiping their employees mandatory and a few religious political figures drew some potential connections to how this could be the Mark of the Beast and these choice quotes got leaked.
I really don't think that a bill would be introduced to a state Senate that basically read like "We feel that this technology will usher in the Apocolypse and be used by Satan, so we feel that banning it is appropriate." That is unless the state senate was controled by the New Morality, but that happens like twenty or thirty years in the future according to Ben Bova, and if that happens, I'm going to the Moon so I can get imortality nanobots.
I really don't think that a bill would be introduced to a state Senate that basically read like "We feel that this technology will usher in the Apocolypse and be used by Satan, so we feel that banning it is appropriate." That is unless the state senate was controled by the New Morality, but that happens like twenty or thirty years in the future according to Ben Bova, and if that happens, I'm going to the Moon so I can get imortality nanobots.