Texas can require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms, a U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday in a victory for conservatives who have long sought to incorporate more religion into schools.
The ruling sets up a potential clash at the U.S. Supreme Court over the issue in the future. Arkansas and Louisiana have passed similar laws, which have also been challenged in courts.
And Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a similar law earlier this moth.
So long as there are alternatives.
For instance, the Satanic Temple’s 7 tenents are:
I One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
II The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
III One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
IV The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one’s own.
V Beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one’s beliefs.
VI People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one’s best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
VII Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
yes, the judges ruling this way certainly aren’t making carveouts for one religion in particular.
I haven’t read the ruling, but heard that they’re allowing it to go forward because there’s no penalty for refusing. Not sure about that. Need to read up on it. I have a lot of coworkers who will not be participating.
Someone light the beacon for The Satanic Temple.
The law specifies that this is ONLY for the Ten Commandments. Blatant disregard for separation aside, there’s not much other faiths can do to balance the scales unless their document also happens to be called the Ten Commandments
Seems like they should make a document called Ten Commandments then lol
I get what youre saying but we both know they don’t care about being hypocrites
That does not matter. It’s the courts to decide.
And the courts are hypocrites, see this ruling about blatant disregard for the 1st amendement
I’d print it, but make it very tiny font and a small little square and place it on a cork board. It would suck if it got covered up by an anchor chart, but at least it’s displayed!
I guess we’re going to have to invade and liberate Texas…again.
Christians are tagging up our schools with grafitti
That’s offensive. Graffiti is beautiful
This is the time for every teacher to just casually mention to NOT google George Carlin’s take on “the ten commandments”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTb6YGciI2g
… Let’s start with the first three: I AM THE LORD THY GOD THOU SHALT NOT HAVE STRANGE GODS BEFORE ME THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD IN VAIN THOU SHALT KEEP HOLY THE SABBATH Right off the bat the first three are pure bullshit. Sabbath day? Lord’s name? strange gods? Spooky language! Designed to scare and control primitive people. In no way does superstitious nonsense like this apply to the lives of intelligent civilized humans in the 21st century. …
How in the fuck can any court find this shit constitutional without being biased as fuck and doing some goddamned fucking olympic level mental gymnastics?
This is what happens in a captured system, the bad guys get to enforce their beliefs absolutely. Objectivity goes out the window.
These justices should be removed immediately for demonstrating their inability to follow a law so basic a 3 year old would understand.
There’s always one court in Texas that has their head up their own asses.
Surely, that means if the politicians fighting for this break one of the commandments they will immediately resign, right?
Church and state fuckin treasonous fuck stains
You are safe here, you can let it all out. We don’t mind.
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It’s the 5th, they’re all insane
Put a picture of the President beside:
You shalt not kill
You shalt not commit adultery
You shalt not steal
You shalt not covet your neighbors child
You shalt not shart.
Maybe this will make children question the morality of right wing politicians more.
Why has Trump broken all 10 commandments, for instance.
A daily morning pledge to a flag definitely turned me against the State as a propaganda bullshit machine.
…But I’m afraid most people just got brainwashed and thought I was weird for abstaining.
Yeah, it truly is weird. I genuinely forgot about this until I was at my son’s school one day that early.
Please tell him how weird it is, so he can put it in context
Why has Trump broken all 10 commandments, for instance.
trump treated it like a to-do list until he got all ten.
That’s the way I want to see it, 10 commandments with examples of how federal and local politicians have violated them.
I honestly think it’s delightful.
Just wait until those commandments are upon the walls of the US History classes and when the teachers get invariably, to the Civil War and teach - as Texas does - that the war was over states rights… and they read the Article of Secession that Texas wrote, the students can call that bullshit out, using the 8th commandment against “bearing false witness”. (no lying)
The issue is that the real Article of Secession that Texas wrote - not the whitewashed version they teach in their schools (that, BTW. mentions States rights ZERO times) - is hella nastier about black people, than they’re comfortable to admit. (page 5, paragraph that starts: “We hold, as undeiniable truths…”)
I think once that one hits the classrooma, a few of the more sharp kids are going to have a field day with it.
America, you wanted a Christian Nation. Wait until it happens. You’ll be paying premium streaming prices for entertainment, and getting rewritten 1950s tripe.
Why should kids follow the ten commandments when very few of our leaders do?
Hey, pedophilia not a commandment!
