Louisiana Becomes First State To Require Ten Commandments In Public School Classrooms

Wait, what?!

You are trying to assert that the 10 Commandments are an equally important part of ALL religions, or well, the three you mentioned anyway.....and thus this is just an effort to promote general spirituality and, well, ALL religions equally?

Is that what is being sold here?

 

Since when has the Constitution been an impediment to religious fervor? I've never understood why people can't worship in their homes and in their churches, and why so many religions seek to impose their views on others.

 

Louisiana is ranked 50th in crimes and corrections, 47th in education, 46th in healthcare, 49th in economy and infrastructure, and 41st in fiscal stability and yet they’re more concerned with passing this trash ass bill than fixing the myriad of issues they have. LOL, the GOP is a J-O-K-E. If you vote Republican and support stuff like this, I will mercilessly mock you and not give two craps about your feelings because you deserve it.

 

Aren’t there something like 650 commandments in the Old Testament

 

Someone once said prayer will exist in school as long as there are pop quizzes.

 

I wouldn’t fight for this law, because it doesn’t bother me either way.

However, it seems like there’s a lot of snowflakes when it comes to the establishment clause. Merely putting a poster on the wall in school classrooms with some words written on it does not establish Judaism or even Christianity as the official religion of the state. It takes a lot more than that to establish a church.

Are people afraid that the student might read them and actually obey them?

 

So your conservative side doesn’t support separation of church and state and first amendment?

 

Hmmm . . . hard disagree on your first paragraph. Snowflakes? That's not really like ya, phat. It's a strong symbolic message suggesting that the classroom/school is a place of worship. Imagine the ways that the symbol will be interpreted by some and used as a point of argument between individuals / groups. Obviously the answer to your last Q is "no."

 

No. This is a baby step towards indoctrination of children to Christianity. And it has no business in a public school, and no business being paid for by tax dollars. You want to worship, you do it on your own time.

 

You have no conservative side then

 

I apologize if “snowflakes” was too harsh. I didn’t intend that. I just don’t get worked up over these kinds of things.

When I was in the early years of grade school in Dallas, we started every day with the Pledge of Allegiance, the Lord’s Prayer, and then sang Texas, Our Texas, the state song. At that time, I was not a Christian and my family did not go to church. Saying the Lord’s Prayer did not have any effect on me, except for ingraining “trespasses” rather than “debts.”

 

So if these were Sharia law posters you’d be fine with it? Cmon. You’re just justifying it because it’s your religion.

 

I agree that taxpayer dollars should not be spent teaching religion, or pretty much any other philosophy for that matter.

It’s interesting that when conservatives complain about progressive baby steps in schools, they are ridiculed and mocked. Now there’s a concern about baby steps.

 

Nothing in my post attempted to justify this law. In fact, the first sentence of my post said I would not fight for this law.

 

It is so obviously against the law that this will be the ultimate test of this SCOTUS.

What is the purpose of this mandate?

 

So Sharia law posters get put up in every public school in the state and if you object to that you’re being a “snowflake?”

 

Which progressive baby steps are you referring to? I'm particularly interested in progressive baby steps mandated throughout a state school system.

 

The Bill's sponsor is clear as to what it is to communicate, and shows the audacity of the movement

 

And yet right-wing governors all over the country demanded posters with other words be taken down, teachers were not allowed to wear pins with any of those words under threat of being fired and are not even allowed to speak those words in some states. Yet....now posters with "just words" are ok?
Hm....sounds just like the very same brain washing that Republi-ban Mullahs have been crying about for years.

 

I don’t agree with the actions of those right-wing governors. Sorry if I don’t fit the mold.