I'm okay with the ten commandments being displayed.......provided the rules of other religions are displayed right next to them
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Put a picture of the President beside:
You shalt not kill
You shalt not commit adultery
You shalt not steal
You shalt not covet your neighbors child
You shalt not shart.
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.
Also, these are the people who think having openly gay people on tv is indoctrinating kids
I like these better than the ten commandments. I especially like number 6
It technically is forcing them to read it. The way the human brain works, if you know how to read and you see writing, you typically physically can't stop yourself from reading it
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?
This is what happens in a captured system, the bad guys get to enforce their beliefs absolutely. Objectivity goes out the window.
These justices should be removed immediately for demonstrating their inability to follow a law so basic a 3 year old would understand.
There’s always one court in Texas that has their head up their own asses.
Doesn't matter, they have the power
Church and state fuckin treasonous fuck stains
It's the 5th, they're all insane
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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!
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.
Notably, the law does NOT say that you cannot display the Five Yamas, the Four Noble Truths, the Ten Precepts of Taoism, Five Pillars of Islam, etc., alongside them. That's what I'd be doing, were I a teacher.
There was a malicious compliance post where the 10 commandments were posted but it was in Arabic.
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The Eight I'd Really Rather You Didn'ts.
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Someone light the beacon for The Satanic Temple.
The law specifies that this is ONLY for the Ten Commandments. Blatant disregard for separation aside, there's not much other faiths can do to balance the scales unless their document also happens to be called the Ten Commandments
Seems like they should make a document called Ten Commandments then lol
I get what youre saying but we both know they don't care about being hypocrites
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I’d print it, but make it very tiny font and a small little square and place it on a cork board. It would suck if it got covered up by an anchor chart, but at least it’s displayed!
Why should kids follow the ten commandments when very few of our leaders do?
Hey, pedophilia not a commandment!
Maybe this will make children question the morality of right wing politicians more.
Why has Trump broken all 10 commandments, for instance.
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Is there a lot of child abuse in Texas?
Religion is popular there, so yes.
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I guess we're going to have to invade and liberate Texas...again.
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. ...
This is a ruling from the 5th Circuit Court. From Wikipedia:
During his first administration, President Donald Trump appointed six judges to the court, with many observers thereafter regarding it as the most conservative court of appeals.[4][5][6] The Fifth Circuit's reversal rate at the US Supreme Court from the beginning of the 2020 term through the end of the 2022 term was 74%, making it the 7th most frequently reversed circuit court; the average rate of reversals was 68%.[7][8] Some members of the Supreme Court, including Chief Justice John Roberts, have indicated concern with how the Fifth Circuit approaches cases.[9][10][11] Several court observers have interpreted the court as being exceptionally conservative in its rulings.[12]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Fifth_Circuit#2020s
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