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Can you name at least seven current laws that derive from at least seven different Commandments?
Public schools are an extension of the government. School staff are government employees. In particular, they're government employees with access to a captive audience of other people's children. If professing Christians abided by the 10 commandments, they'd never work on Saturdays (do you think it's okay to change the day of the Sabbath?), never use profanity, never have affairs, never steal a pen, and so on. You can't even successfully teach this stuff in Sunday School but you think it will work magic in government schools?
No they're not. The first three Commandments would be unConstutional to enforce and the last is the basis of our economic system .
It's not free speech when you charge the government for it.
I think we can safely translate 'unregenerate' as 'aware of the applicable laws'.
I'm getting tired of all this. Go ahead and pass your religious laws. Reap what you sow. I can't think of anything that would advance secular humanism more than a state imploding under a balancing act of trying to figure out which of its religous consituencies to please and which to oppress.
Arguably, three or four of them may be. The same three or four that are part of the laws of countries that are mostly Hindu or Buddhist. Murder, theft, and perjury are no-brainers for anyone who wants to have an orderly society, and adultery has at least civil penalties because most people don't like being cheated on. I'm fine with 'don't do things that hurt people unnecessarily' being displayed in public schools.
It doesn't specify a fair trial or a right to vote, either.
When the FFRF intervenes in violations by Islamists, it doesn't seem to make the Christian Right news. Without you guys losing your minds, these are boring local matters.
The Constitution and federal law hold everywhere in America. The FFRF has no authority at all except to advise.
By most people not being such abject idiots as to think a blank wall endorses atheism.
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