Did I misunderstand what "separation of church and state" meant?
this post was submitted on 18 May 2024
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Depends. Are you a Louisiana Republican legislator?
Based on this ruling, I don't think I'm qualified.
Laws are only useful if successfully upheld in court. For some reason these never get challenged enough. Strange.
sherman we need you now more than ever.
i fucking hate the south
“The purpose is not solely religious,” Sen. Jay Morris, R-West Monroe, told the Senate. Rather, it is the Ten Commandments' "historical significance, which is simply one of many documents that display the history of our country and foundation of our legal system.”
Only two of them are actually law: Thou shalt not murder and thou shalt not steal.
This is all about religion, and they're going to get away with it. We'd be better off if our legal codes were based on the seven tenets instead.
Not even two, maybe one and a half as it depends a lot on who you are and whom you're stealing from. And you can even argue on murder too
https://www.evilbible.com/evil-bible-home-page/murder-in-the-bible/
If I linked 1/3rd of the list of times the Bible condones murder it would be removed as spam.
Flip it around on them, and say that if the Ten Commandments are so important, why they support Trump, who regularly breaks them.
Because the Lord works in mysterious ways, or some other dumb shit excuse.
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America! Land of the free*!
*: Unless you meant freedom of religion. You better not! We'll sue/burn/shoot/jesus you if you do! Ultraconservative Christianity or death!
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Religious people just love indoctrinating children. It's their whole thing. Get them while they're young and dumb and won't realize it's all just make believe bullshit.
It makes me so angry because children are vulnerable and trusting; exploiting that to get them to believe in nonsense is evil.
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violating the constitution by establishment of a religion
Louisiana is a real conservative religious armpit.
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Wtf is going on with you on the other side of the pond there?
Ignorance, propaganda and christofascism
At least six of those go against the core tenets of MAGA
No problem! We've got options!
-Fontsize = 3
-Hang them with text against wall
-Hang them on the ceiling
-Type them in Chinese/foreign language/braille
-Bright yellow text on white paper
-Printed with bad cartridge
-Font: wingdings
Few years ago Texas required 'In God we Trust' signs to be displayed in classrooms. Schools weren't allowed to pay for them, so basically donated. They conveniently rejected the signs that had a rainbow on it, or the one written in Arabic.
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1120239381/texas-in-god-we-trust-arabic-signs-chaz-stevens
Write the 10 commandments on a doll and hang it in the classroom 1800s style
Put it in the orgional Hebrew.
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Does it say which ten commandments?
The Satanic Temple has entered the chat
Conferencing in the ACLU
Name and shame the religious extremist who passed this and ban them from office
Ask them how they'd feel about requiring children to wear hijabs and all of the sudden they'll understand how everyone feels about their fascist laws lol
Nah, they'll just think Christians good, Muslim bad
The woman who pushed for this said she didn't care about Atheists or Muslims.
Thou shalt suck my dick
I'm not entirely sure of your translating skills, but I'm board with the results. Will you be doing the whole bible, or just the fun bits?
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That's pretty smart The United States is a place for smart people
Welp...I was gonna visit NOLA one more time before moving from Texas to Oregon this summer and leaving the Deep South once and for all. But, as a public school teacher, I have to say this is completely and utterly monkeyfucked, and Louisiana isn't getting a thin-ass dime from me.
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Let's see if the don't kill command deters school shootings.
Post them in Hebrew, to be historically accurate.
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