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.
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?
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.
The judges justification was that displaying the 100% religious material does not force students to read or affirm the religious content. So, I’m looking forward to the Satanic Temple’s suit to allow them to display their own tenets now that school walls are an open forum for religious materials that are legally not pushing their religiousity on students. They’re a hell of a lot better a set of tenets anyway.
It’s been a busy week for the 5th Circuit, also affirming the Earth is flat, guns are people, and New Coke was actually quite tasty.
If guns are people, and we’re allowed to own guns…
Slavery is legal again folks!
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. …
America, you wanted a Christian Nation. Wait until it happens. You’ll be paying premium streaming prices for entertainment, and getting rewritten 1950s tripe.
Surely this will be appealed again.
Is there a lot of child abuse in Texas?
If they don’t properly honor their mothers and fathers.
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Church and state fuckin treasonous fuck stains
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You are safe here, you can let it all out. We don’t mind.
Maybe this will make children question the morality of right wing politicians more.
Why has Trump broken all 10 commandments, for instance.
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.
Time for the kids to put their art skills to work and mark them up!
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.
