Richter blockiert dauerhaft Zehn-Gebote-Ausstellungen in mehreren Schulbezirken von Arkansas

Good. Separation of church and state.

(From the article): „A judge ruled Monday to permanently bar several school districts from following Arkansas’s law to display the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks ruled the law violates the Establishment Clause and the free exercise rights of the plaintiffs.

“Act 573’s purpose is only to display a sacred, religious text in a prominent place in every public-school classroom. And the only reason to display a sacred, religious text in every classroom is to proselytize to children. The State has said the quiet part out loud,” the judge wrote.

The ruling affects several Arkansas school districts but is not a statewide ban.

“Today’s decision ensures that our clients’ classrooms will remain spaces where all students, regardless of their faith, feel welcomed and can learn without worrying that they do not live up to the state’s preferred religious beliefs,” said Heather Weaver, senior counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union’s Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief.

Jeff LeMaster, communications director for the office of state Attorney General Tim Griffin, said the office is “reviewing the opinion and will appeal.”

The ruling comes after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Louisiana’s state law requiring the Ten Commandments be posted in classrooms. Arkansas is under the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals.

A split in decisions could lead the case to the Supreme Court, which some proponents of the law are hoping for.“

Love this. That’s how you indoctrinate kids the right way… By showing them they can choose on their own away from school. But really, fuck religion.

I have no problem of these to be posted.

THERE ARE SEVEN FUNDAMENTAL TENETS

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.

I don’t want the schools teaching my kids religion.

If I want my kids to be taught religion then that’s my job.

Poole are celebrating this acting as though the goal isn’t to get this to the right wing supreme court.

It’s like these people don’t even know any kids. The first thing 13-yr-old me wanted to do when I was forbidden to do something was to do it. Stick these buzzkill rules on the classroom wall and almost immediately, they’d have kids fucking their neighbours‘ wives, stealing shit, coveting shit, wanking on the Sabbath instead of going to Temple, killing shit… pure anarchy, and not the cool Emma Goldman/Pierre-Joseph Proudhon kind of anarchy either, let me tell you.

It’s fascinating to me that so many people want to post the 10 commandments in public places when they directly contradict the Bill of Rights. Granted, these tend to be the same people who want statues to traitors…

Also better than the 10 commandments

https://www.actionacademe.com/post/ethics-the-eight-pastafarian-i-d-really-rather-you-didn-ts

The right call. I’m glad to know there are still some adults in the room.

Can we just let kids learn about different cultures and beliefs instead of forcing one specific set of religious rules on them?

In before Alito off the top rope shadow docket removing the block… edit – /sigh

*“As a Christian,”* good. This would do way more damage than good in the long run.