When history teacher Chris Dier sued Louisiana two years ago for mandating that the Ten Commandments be displayed in classrooms, he said it was not about taking a stand against Christianity.

“It’s a defense of many different types of values, including civil liberties and religious freedoms,” Dier said, who teaches at a New Orleans high school. “I spent over 16 years teaching students that the constitution protects everyone of every faith – students of no faith too.”

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[–] 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They should comply, but with illustrated commandments showing Trump breaking each of them. With explanations if needed.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    My first thought was that there is a gulf of difference between display, and display respectfully... But seriously how does anyone take their religion so seriously when it's so obviously a fragile veneer, if your beliefs are that brittle maybe time to start challenging some assumptions.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Just because teachers are defying the mandates doesn't mean the states implementing them shouldn't be sued to get the mandates overturned.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Texas’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, and other proponents of the law have argued that the Ten Commandments are “irrevocably intertwined with America’s legal, moral and historical heritage”. It’s a perspective that Usher said she “unequivocally” rejects.

    “As an African American woman, American heritage has been oppression and slavery,” she said. “I see a push in certain ways that some people in this country want to go back to those things. The last thing I see is people obeying the Ten Commandments.”

    When I was a kid (born and raised in the US), and I was sent to private religious (Christian) schools, I learned that Christianity had a fixation on child abuse and punishment. When I later read the bible, the New Testament was unbelievable to me, Christian institutions had proven to me they practiced the Old Testament, not the New. After I read the bible (I was sixteen), I stopped calling myself a Christian. Never again.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Not Set In Stone

    I really enjoyed that

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Post all 622 of them.

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