Louisiana makes it law that 10 commandments be displayed in public classrooms

It’s very telling the conservatives are trying to change the subject to something not on topic.

Ironically lying (which is against the 10 commandments) is being employed by the religious right.

 

The true meaning of thou shall not lye has been twisted beyond comprehension.

 

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Ten Commandments CONFUSING WOKE KIDS

cause they don't know what pronoun THOU is

 

I actually don’t agree with DEI but it’s irrelevant to the separation of church and state despite your opinion piece.

 

Maybe the hypocrite who pretends to believe in the 10 Commandments can give them all his life experiences as examples.

 

I live in Louisiana. I left Texas about 13 years ago. While I miss it, I have a very good life largely because I was willing to move around for work and ultimately settled here. I’ve come to like it.


That being said it’s definitely a poor state and the people are pretty odd. We find it strange that they pray when we go to kids performances and all that other kind of stuff it doesn’t really bother us much. I think both my wife and I take the view of although we are not religious we don’t mind our kids being exposed to some of those principles. However, I understand that some people don’t feel that way and so overall, I wish that they wouldn’t do stuff like this.

 

I think the idea is that they see DEI as an alternate framework for morality that doesn't need God to operate. So DEI competes with Christianity for adherents. I don't really see it that way, but can understand how it can feel like that.

 

*OF COURSE* it's always the Ten Commandments with these MF's and never The Beatitudes - got to keep the Christ out of Christian Nationalism

 

This just seems like an obvious attempt to get a bizarre case to the Supreme Court to further erode separation of church and state. LA MAGA idiots even know this will almost immediately get the state sued. They obviously wanted the fight and a big SCOTUS swing for the fences case.

 

related

The Establishment Clause

https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/amendment-i/interpretations/264

excerpt:

Government-sponsored religious symbols

The cases involving governmental displays of religious symbols—such as Ten Commandment displays in public school classrooms, courthouses, or public parks; nativity scenes in courthouses and shopping districts; or crosses on public land—have generated much debate. The most prominent approach in more recent cases is called the “endorsement test”; it asks whether a reasonable observer acquainted with the full context would regard the display as the government endorsing religion and, therefore, sending a message of disenfranchisement to other believers and non-believers.

The Court’s decisions in this arena are often closely divided. They also illustrate that the Court has declined to take “a rigid, absolutist view” of the separation of church and state. In Lynch v. Donnelly (1984), the Court allowed display of a nativity scene surrounded by other holiday decorations in the heart of a shopping district, stating that it “engenders a friendly community spirit of good will in keeping with the season.” But in County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties Union (1989), a different majority of Justices held that the display of a nativity scene by itself at the top of the grand stairway in a courthouse violated the Establishment Clause because it was “indisputably religious—indeed sectarian.” In McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union (2005), the Court held that a prominent display of the Ten Commandments at the county courthouse, which was preceded by an official’s description of the Ten Commandments as the “embodiment of ethics in Christ,” was a religious display that was unconstitutional. The same day, it upheld a Ten Commandments monument, which was donated by a secular organization dedicated to reducing juvenile delinquency and surrounded by other monuments on the spacious statehouse grounds. Van Orden v. Perry (2005). Only one Justice was in the majority in both cases.

More broadly, the Establishment Clause provides a legal framework for resolving disagreements about the public role of religion in our increasingly pluralistic republic.
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more at the link

 

Yikes, elevating DEI statement to religious faith is quite telling of how skewed the perception has become. Reminds me of how dangerous blue (or was it pink) M&Ms have become.

 

Oh it's way more than that, I mean whatever I think originalism is dumb as f-k - but if there was anything that Thomas Jefferson liked more than impregnating the Help - it's prattling on about the "Wall of Separation" concept.

I mean, look at his epitaph that he dictated


The "Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom" - which he ranked a solid #2 in his cv after the DOI - is pretty unambiguous about this stuff

 

historical document
private funding

Wordings used to exactly seek a revisit by the SC.

This is a golden time for Christian zealots to push their ideology to a very friendly court. "They will come after contraception next" was laughed at by some posters here, who might now realize it's coming.

 

Sounds like the Gov of Louisiana is a product of the Louisiana school system and doesn't quite "get" the Constitution.......how about trying to get off the bottom of the list in Math and Reading before you take on "Adult" policies.

 

Jews were there first
The Palestinians weren't for like thousands of years

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We have to teach kids about Moses and Israel and Hebrews
https://www.britannica.com/summary/... tradition, Moses,of all newborn Hebrew males.

Moses, (flourished 14th–13th century BCE), Prophet of Judaism. In the Judaic tradition, Moses is revered as the greatest prophet and teacher. According to the book of Exodus, he was born in Egypt to Hebrew parents, who set him afloat on the Nile in a reed basket to save him from an edict calling for the death of all newborn Hebrew males.

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I'M MOSES!
He beat the Egyptians and he took down the League of Shadows in Gotham City

 

Oh that looks really good..... Should show that movie in schools but woke people only like tranny Storytime.....

 

It’s working. GOP makes people dumber so there is more dumber GOP to makesing dummer peple to make GP new…shut up, batin’!!!

 

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kids in OTHER STATES learn to steal

while Moses taught kids not to steal