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.

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[–] 13 points 6 months ago (7 children)

If they would be written in a poster on a wall it would matter. At least to anyone who actually sees them.

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  • [+] -20 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    It wouldn't matter to the people that matter. The people creating this legislation in the first place.

    You are too concerned with being right and not concerned enough about protecting children from indoctrination.

    They can't denigrate text from Taoism and claim it's not suppression of religious freedom, but they can totally point at text from a meme religion as proof that your argument is not serious.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    The Satanic Temple is a non-religious civil rights organization, and this has been their primary tactic for years because it works. When you point out to John Q. Public that allowing the 10 Commandments into classrooms will also open the doors to the 7 Tenets of Satanism, it either causes a reversal of course or bulldozes a path for wider religious acceptance.

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  • [+] -16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    The Satanic Temple is a non-religious civil rights organization

    Yes, that's the problem I pointed out in the previous comment.

    it either causes a reversal of course or bulldozes a path for wider religious acceptance.

    No, it causes people to dismiss your concerns that arose from a satirical and insincere religion.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Why does it cause people to dismiss our concerns when it is not "satirical nor insincere"?

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  • [+] -6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Try and read what I said again.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    You don't actually understand a word you're talking about, and it's extremely obvious to everyone but yourself

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Would you care to explain what I'm wrong about or did you just come here to be offended and lob personal insults in return?

    E: thanks for the downvote, personal insults it is, I guess.

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