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

Not sure of your age but if you were saying the Lord’s Prayer after 1962 your school was breaking the law.

 

It is a LAW ... and it violates the constitution!

That doesn't bother you?

 

BTW, Muslims do not view Christianity as a monotheistic faith. And imagine if schools in Louisiana endorsed religious messaging, curated by the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC

 

I think the effect on the kids will be negligible to non-existent. Its more to satisfy the religious fervor of adults and legislators to prove their bonafides. No big deal or at least no really big deal.
I can recall the 10 commandments in several of my classrooms as a kid and recall that we started the day with a verse from the KJV. Public schools. Meaningless to the kids. It was a routine , just something we did. In the county where i now live the 10 commandments are displayed on 2 large plaques - like 2ft X 3ft. on either side of the judge. Yet the jails are full and there is plenty enough rapin’, robbing, and shootings to go around for such a small town full of churches and public display of religiousity

 

Seems like a msnbc talking points chart.
Keep that libbie trash out of schools and far away from children.

 

Sounds like NewsMax talking points. Keep that secular trash out of school and far away from children.

Yeah, you don't like it do you? I don't think a sign is going to make kids change who they are, but it is a Segway to forcing religion on kids in a public school setting. Keep it in the christian schools where parents have decided that's what they want their kids to learn.

 

I am bothered by a state government favoring one religion over the others when educating future generations of Americans. By requiring it in every classroom, they are forcing it on the kids. And I suspect you'd feel the same way if a government mandated that every classroom have only the Satanists' version of the ten commandments.

 

Since we can't be so bothered over that relic of Jewish faith, when will private christian schools put the diversity list in their classrooms?

 

These control freaks want a theocracy with THEM in charge pushing THEIR religion down everyone else's throat. Worship as you see fit, but forcing it on others flies in the face of our founding principles.

 

So not the millions quoted in the Bible but hundreds maybe a couple of thousand. Did you read what you posted?

 

Awesome. Such an awesome post. Speaks for itself.


Tangential, but : Just like all the supporters on this board of a guy who literally tried to overturn an election speaks for itself.

Thanks for the post. What a time to be alive!!!!!!

 

I'm so old I remember reciting the Lord's Prayer every morning in public school. Always began with the words "Our father who chart in heaven Harold be thy name". I also remember the following phrase from the Pledge of Allegiance "one nation under God invisible with liberty and justice for all". My point isn't to ridicule either the prayer or the pledge but rather to point out that compelling rote recitation by young children who may not understand the words is nothing more than an absurd ritual.

As far as the mandatory posting of the Ten Commandments is concerned if I recall the Louisiana State Legislature also passed a law prohibiting the discussion of sexuality. That being the case how is a teacher supposed to respond when a child asks for the meaning of the phrase "Thou shall not commit adultery".
Louisiana Legislature passes bill restricting discussion of gender and sexuality • Louisiana Illuminator

 

Don't be so sure that's not what's actually happening in Louisiana, at least by their actions.

 

That sign clearly has an anti-white, Christian conservative meaning behind it.
Why don’t hate white christian conservatives so much?
You cannot even hide it.

 

Thought viruses don’t exist?

 

I think the concern is that the students will read them, and then question what is meant by the arcane words and sentence structure. Then you have public teachers teaching Sunday School.

 

Alito, in the secret recording of the discussion with Roberts, has basically come out and said he wants more religion in law.

 

It DOES?? How so?

PS I have nothing against christians, I am one. It's the righteous ones that really hide behind the word to give them reason to hate, that I have an issue with.

 

I am neither Jewish, Buddhist or Muslim. They put more emphasis on a larger number of the commandments than Jesus did. Not sure why you guys think this favors a religion that at best is in 4th place in the 10C race.

(Hint 10c is vastly more important in Judaism and Islam than true Christianity, which did not exist in Hebrew times)