GOP in LA and Oklahoma require 10 Commandments, Bible in Public Schools | Walters blames public school teachers for domestic terrorism

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Including Trump Bibles made in China, right?

[Spoiler Alert — the Trump Administration exempted Bibles from tariffs on China during his term]
 
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Like so much else of Trumpism, this whole directive in OK to put Bibles in schools is a combination of forcing Evangelical religion down kid's throats because right-wingers can't get them into churches anymore, a very public "stick it to the libs" move, and pure grift, as Walters is wasting millions of dollars buying Trump Bibles to put into classrooms (and likely pocketing some of it himself). Walters is really hitting the Trumper trifecta with this move.
 

Federal judge rules Louisiana law requiring 10 Commandments to be in all public schools, unconstitutional​

BATON ROUGE, La. — In a blow to Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry, the Louisiana law requiring a depiction of the 10 Commandments be displayed in all public schools, which he signed into law, was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge on Tuesday.
U.S. District Court Judge John De Gravelles decided that public K-12 schools and colleges in Louisiana do not have to display religious text in the classrooms. The law, supported by both the governor and Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, was set to go into effect on January 1.

“We strongly disagree with the court’s decision and will immediately appeal, as H.B. 71’s implementation deadline is approaching on January 1, 2025,” AG Murrill told WWL Louisiana.
This comes after lawyers and parents of children in several Louisiana schools sued to block the new law from taking effect saying it violates a student’s right to religious freedom and the parent’s authority to raise their children based on their faith.

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Judge is an Obama appointee
 
nycfan said:


Including Trump Bibles made in China, right?

[Spoiler Alert — the Trump Administration exempted Bibles from tariffs on China during his term]
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How deep is this mandate?

I recall a company back when the made in America was really at its peak, bragging about making everything in America. During an interview with the CEO on the manufacturing floor it was pointed out that all of the equipment was foreign sources as well as most of the raw materials.

So whats to stop a company from completing 98% of production in China, then doing the last 2% in America and claiming it's "Made In America"?
 
Business is business. Senator Prescott Bush skated on trading with the Nazis after war was declared.
 

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GIFT LINK —> The Tiny Oklahoma School Trying to Bring Religion Back to Classrooms

Could This Tiny School Break Down the Wall Between Church and State?​

Officials in Oklahoma are laying the groundwork to push Christianity into public schools.

“… In 2017, the court ruled in Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer that excluding church-run school playgrounds from a grant program for playground resurfacing was unconstitutional.

In 2020, the court found in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue that Montana’s exclusion of religious schools from a state scholarship program was unconstitutional. “A State need not subsidize private education,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote. “But once a State decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious.”

Two years later, in Carson v. Makin, Roberts again wrote the majority opinion, which held that Maine’s prohibition against using publicly funded tuition assistance for religious schools violated the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment: “A neutral benefit program in which public funds flow to religious organizations through the independent choices of private benefit recipients does not offend the Establishment Clause.”

The Carson decision, Farley says, “poured gasoline on the fire of these questions we were already asking” — above all, the question of using tax revenue to support a parochial school, after the pandemic made clear to the archdiocese that there was an opening to serve even more students virtually. Despite relatively poor outcomes when compared with brick-and-mortar schools, Oklahoma’s percentage of students in virtual schools is five times the national average; Farley says that virtual instruction answers the question “What could we do for the kids in largely rural areas where there are not brick-and-mortar Catholic schools?”

The Supreme Court seemed to offer an implicit invitation to challenge the Establishment Clause while also challenging Oklahoma’s Constitution and its charter-school law. Here was a chance for St. Isidore to be a test case, a “sort of pilot in Oklahoma,” Farley says. …”
 
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I've posted this before, but Evangelicals have been freaking out for awhile about the steadily declining church attendance and general decline of religious denominations in the USA - including even in many of the their churches now - so apparently they've decided to just force their religion (and make no mistake, this is all about their version of Christianity) into public schools and "evangelize" them there, whether parents approve or not. If parents won't bring their kids to Sunday School anymore to be won to conservative Jeezus, then they'll just convert them in public school classes. I think it will badly backfire and likely lead to even more resentment and decline of Christianity in the country, but they seem hell-bent on trying it.
 
People will look back on this time and absolutely marvel at the myths a large majority of people still believed despite our advances in reason and evidence. I know I do.
 
aGDevil2k said:
Why do they care so much what other people believe?
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They think it will make people realize that they are special because God has liked them best for a long time and the newbies have some catching up to do. Bad theology, of course, but not their worst.
 
Milk and Cookies said:
People will look back on this time and absolutely marvel at the myths a large majority of people still believed despite our advances in reason and evidence. I know I do.
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I feel the same way. Those same people think about those poor primitive savages that believed in Zeus and Thor and how they never heard the word but for some reason those same people are absolutely adamant that this new set of myths is the correct one. I can't understand that.
 
aGDevil2k said:
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Because they are saving the country from going to hell in a hand basket and the best way to accomplish that is to begin the religious conditioning at an early age.
 
You always hear people say "we need to put God/ Jesus back in the classroom." When was God in the classroom previously. I grew up in the 80's in rural NC and God was not in our classroom.
 
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