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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMissouri Republican lawmaker wants to require schools to display the Ten Commandments
https://www.yahoo.com/news/missouri-republican-lawmaker-wants-require-122500039.htmlA bill filed this month by Rep. Hardy Billington, a Poplar Bluff Republican, would require public school districts and charter schools to display copies of the Ten Commandments, a set of ethical directions from the Old Testament, in every building and classroom.
The legislation is part of a broader push to inject religious teachings into schools and comes as a growing number of Republicans nationally have openly embraced arguments that American politics and culture are rooted in the Christian faith.
Billingtons bill also follows similar legislation in other GOP-led states, such as Louisiana, which recently passed a law to require the Ten Commandments in schools. A federal judge last month blocked the Louisiana law on constitutional grounds.
Trellastic
(49 posts)That said, why their focus on the Ten Commandments in particular when there are other commands in the bible to choose from?
struggle4progress
(120,544 posts)and you shall love him as yourself"
Leviticus 19
DBoon
(23,170 posts)Jewish, Catholic, orthodox, or one of the several Protestant versions?
ZonkerHarris
(25,421 posts)struggle4progress
(120,544 posts)None
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RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(285 posts)Which gives me another opportunity to say: Instead of putting Bibles and other religious crapola in Public Schools, put Egyptian history books in all the churches. That way, it will all come crashing down much sooner!
sakabatou
(43,250 posts)Last edited Sat Dec 14, 2024, 11:51 AM - Edit history (1)
Celerity
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sakabatou
(43,250 posts)onethatcares
(16,597 posts)a citizens initiative to require all elected representatives to live by the ten commandments.
scarletlib
(3,499 posts)Why not post them if the government is so anxious to have them up. Something on the schoolroom wall is just that to kids.
99% will just ignore it. If a teacher has to answer questions about the commandments it might raise some interesting comments.
Long story short I dont think it will change anyones behavior.
The posting will not have the effect authorities want.
(I realize this approach disregards other aspects of the posting).
maxrandb
(16,000 posts)as long as there is a chart highlighting all the ones Donnie Dipshit has violated.
I shut down a dipshit at church last Sunday. He tried to pull that; "God has chosen flawed men before to fulfill his works". He then cited Paul.
I simply said; "so, after God chose Paul, did Paul continue murdering, torturing and persecuting Christians"?