The Ten Commandments Don’t Belong in Classrooms
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The governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, has recently made it a law for the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public schools. Yes, you read that correctly. Public schools.
As reported by The Telegraph, “Landry signed the bill into law on [last] Wednesday, making Louisiana the first state in the US to require all public schools and universities to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms.”
This is regression.
The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution constitutes that there should be a separation between church and state.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had this to say —
“Our public schools are not Sunday schools, and students of all faiths — or no faith — should feel welcome in them,” the American Civil Liberties Union said in a joint statement with other civil rights groups warning against Louisiana’s legislation.
“The law violates the separation of church and state and is blatantly unconstitutional,” they said in a joint statement on Wednesday. “The First Amendment promises that we all get to decide for ourselves what religious beliefs, if any, to hold and practice, without pressure from the government. Politicians have no business imposing their preferred religious doctrine on students and families in public schools.”
According to The Telegraph —
A group of Louisiana families with children in public school are suing the state in federal court to block a new state law requiring every public school classroom to display the Ten Commandments.
The plaintiffs include parents from multi-faith backgrounds — including rabbis and pastors — represented by a coalition of civil rights groups arguing that the law violates long-standing Supreme Court precedent and First Amendment protections against the government from injecting religion into schools.
I’m sure this fits into Landry’s plan for this case to make it all the way up to the biased, untrustworthy, majority white & conservative Supreme Court.
It’s just the beginning of a conservative, white nationalist government that isn’t kind to, or tolerant of, nonwhite people, non-Christians, gay people, or anyone they can “other” or view as “different.”
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a Christian. I believe in the Ten Commandments. I believe in God.
However, there are two huge problems.
First of all, God believes in free will. If you are a Christian, how many times have you heard that if God wanted to save every single person on the planet, he could? Even God doesn’t force Christianity on people.
Secondly, Christianity has always been used by white America to justify atrocities like slavery, segregation, and even scientific racism.
I do not want to live in a country controlled by white Christians. Ever.