OK school boss announces all teachers will have a Bible & teach from it

Absolutely.

But then, why wouldn't they? 3/9 of the Supreme Court were installed by a President only elected with help from Russia. And who tried to illegally overturn a federal election with the only result that......the judicial branch is trying to HELP HIM avoid justice. (or even so much as a fair trial. )

They've been clearly shown that rule of law doesn't apply to them. And that such criminality is acceptable to approximately half of the electorate.

So why wouldn't they violate the law whenever they chose? Hell, they may even get a major political party to intervene to assist in avoiding justice, as is currently happening with Steve Bannon.

 

Even if this were not blatantly unconstitutional (or it at least used to be), I can imagine the in-fighting which will erupt among those who generally support using public schools to promote Christianity if and when teachers with various religious views and beliefs start offering their interpretations of Biblical text. Who gets to decide what the Bible really says?

 

Surely they've thought this out and have a detailed plan, cant be a hastily written press release after all

 

Another state near the bottom of most ranking lists except obesity, and this is how they plan to address it?

 

OK. So parents used to move their kids to private schools to be taught religion. Now they'll move them to private schools to get away from religion?

 

This is what the gop wants

 

PE is being replaced with Biblerobics, so I think they got it figured out

 

Theocracy, here we come. If these people get their way.

 

@tilly

 

maybe he can come tell us what his “conservative” side thinks of this

 

I think some folks missed the “joke”

 

His post is bullcrap. (Shocking). The 10c are pretty universal. The BIBLE is not.

As long as we have 1A then i dont think this is OK. A teacher should be allowed to share faith on a personal level, but a history teacher should teach history.

 

The 10 Commandments are used by Hinduism (the third largest religion)? Or Buddhism (4th)? Or Sikhism (5th)?

 

Oklahoma's constitution has an even stricter separation of church and state than the U.S. Constitution. It's why their supreme court just struck down Walters's previous genius plan of making a religious school a public charter school.

 

Hinduism has similar commandments. More technically than what Jesus taught.

 

I thought the Bhagavad Gita was pretty clear that one should not simply follow spiritual injunctions mindlessly on the path to Karmic yoga lol. Kind of the opposite of hanging a list of commandments on the wall and hoping it sticks.

 

The Greatest Commandment
As recorded in Matthew 22 Jesus was asked 'what is the greatest commandment?' His reply begins in verse...
34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together.
35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question:
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

The instruction or admonishment to 'Love your neighbor as yourself is essentially an alternative wording of the Golden Rule, also known as the Law of Reciprocity. 'Treat others the way you yourself want to be treated.' That instruction is foundational, essential. And variously worded in the positive or the negative, is found in every religion practiced on Earth.

Some contest or differ on what exactly is a neighbor, but enough scriptural evidence in both biblical testaments indicate it is whoever is in one's vicinity, whoever is in need of whatever assistance or help another can give.

 

The display of the ten commandments endorses a specific god. Yahweh. Hardly universal and clearly unconstitutional. Weird hill to die on.

 

Really? You think a polytheistic religion has a commandment that starts with "You shall have no other gods before Me?" Seems like that commandment explicitly contradicts their religion.