Politics New law requires ten commandments to be displayed in Louisiana classrooms

This is bullshit

 

I am all for freedom of religion, but...

I believe this violates the first amendment.

 

Agreed. This actually violates the idea of freedom of religion.

 

It violates neither of those things actually, but it does violate separation of church and state. About as bad as giving gradeschool kids books teaching them how to suck a dick.
Maybe Democrats and Republicans alike should stop using other people’s children as publicity stunts to keep public discourse in such a poor state of affairs?

Nah just kidding. What would keep us all busy then? We might ask a question about a war, or even worse, ask for healthcare.

 

We used to say the pledge of allegiance

 

A public school being forced to put up a specific religious document in every class is absolutely violating the idea of freedom of religion.

 

It’s not necessarily taking away anyone’s right to worship or ‘freely exercise religion’ though, which is the main tenant of freedom of religion as per the first amendment. It’s a dumb law, but not a violation of the first amendment. Not any more than walking into a cornerstore that has hindu or buddhist items displayed. Someone else exercising their religious preference doesn’t necessarily take yours away.
Like i said though, dumb law and it violates separation of church and state.
On the plus side, our public schools are hardly capable of teaching students anything anyway, so it’s not like the Ten Commandments would catch on any better than math or reading. Shit, most the kids probably can’t even read the poster.

 

Yeah, not worried about them learning thou shalt not kill, either.

But this definitely feels like forcing a specific religion upon everyone in those classrooms. And, being a public school, if they are going to offer a school like that for Christians they should be forced to offer an alternative for any other religion.

 

It is definitely shoehorning a specific religion into the classroom. Rather than offering other options, they need to take it all out and focus on what they are supposed to be there for in the first place. And this is coming from someone with religious beliefs. These political stunts involving schools and children have to stop. I firmly believe they are by design and used to cause public upheaval, but I’m also conspiratorial-minded.

 

I think it is certainly done with the intent of introducing creep. If we can get this approved, what else can we get approved? It sets a precedent that they can run further with. That's just the way special interests work as far as I can tell.

If it's going to be there then teachers should be encouraged to teach about all faiths equally. I would definitely prefer just keeping it out, though.

 

I am not a legal expert. This is my opinion on why this violates the first amendment.


The "establishment clause", prohibits government actions that unduly favor one religion over another.

 

Makes perfect sense to me.

 

Hoping extreme court will overturn another decades long precedent.

 

I want to know WHICH VERSION of the ten commandments, because the Protestant and Catholic ones are different.
Just to be safe, I think the posters should be in the original Hebrew. We don't want the holy word to be corrupted by a possibly faulty translation.

 

And if you live in a Red State, you soon will again!

 

What religion does that promote? I just remember the incest in the Bible, but no specific mention of fellatio.

 

Liberal Dogma, I believe. They are very fundamentalist.