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.
Is there a lot of child abuse in Texas?
If they don’t properly honor their mothers and fathers.
Religion is popular there, so yes.
Surely this will be appealed again.
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!
Slavery was never made illegal in the US
The 13th amendment disagrees
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Bolded it for you. If convicted of a crime you too can be a slave.
Not really the same context
Yeah, nah, laws banning slavery shouldn’t have an asterisk and the US is pretty fucked up for that
ALSO…As of 2022, several states, including Alabama, Tennessee, and Oregon, passed measures to update their state constitutions to remove language allowing slavery as a punishment for a crime, while Louisiana did not.
Bur ya know who cares about progress
read closer.
Aha but now it’s legal for anyone to do it.
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
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.
Christians are tagging up our schools with grafitti
That’s offensive. Graffiti is beautiful
Surely, that means if the politicians fighting for this break one of the commandments they will immediately resign, right?
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
That does not matter. It’s the courts to decide.
And the courts are hypocrites, see this ruling about blatant disregard for the 1st amendement
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.
America, you wanted a Christian Nation. Wait until it happens. You’ll be paying premium streaming prices for entertainment, and getting rewritten 1950s tripe.
Why should kids follow the ten commandments when very few of our leaders do?
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!
I guess we’re going to have to invade and liberate Texas…again.
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.
