By John Q. Hosedrinker 
A judge issued a temporary injunction against Texas’s new law mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. This ruling, the third against such a state law, was in response to a lawsuit filed by Dallas-area families and faith leaders who argued the requirement violated the First Amendment. The ruling is expected to escalate the legal battle, potentially reaching the U.S. Supreme Court, as similar laws in Louisiana and Arkansas have faced legal challenges. The court reasoned that the law would force teachers to answer questions about the Ten Commandments, effectively promoting religion in the classroom.
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Texas cannot require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, a judge said Wednesday in a temporary ruling against the state’s new requirement, making it the third such state law to be blocked by a court. You know, it’s just baffling that we’re even having this conversation. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is pretty clear about the separation of church and state. It’s not some obscure legal theory; it’s written plain as day. I honestly don’t understand what some people are thinking when they try to circumvent this.
Is the separation of church and state such a difficult concept for those supposedly “freedom-loving” conservatives to understand? Well, the answer is starting to become a bit clear, unfortunately. They make Christian private schools for people who want to indoctrinate their kids. Public schools are just for basic learning. You can teach them your narrow philosophy at home, no need to force it on other people’s children.
The First Amendment is pretty clear about the separation between church and state. I dont understand what people are thinking when trying this. Especially from the Christian side, maybe they read a different book than I did, but I’m pretty sure forcing people to do something isn’t the message. Psychology teaches the want has to come from within, Religion generally teaches the want comes from within. Trying to do stupid stuff like this flies in the face of that. They come across as neither religious nor psychologically sound.
Using their reasoning, it makes much more sense to require posting of the Magna Carta. But maybe, if kids read the Ten Commandments, they’ll see that President Trump is batting 0.800 at least. Evangelicals know this is unconstitutional. They don’t care. They will keep trying over and over until they get they get something through. Loyalty to the United States and its laws are an afterthought compared to their loyalty to their God (I say their God because I’m pretty sure He doesn’t resemble the God in other Christian faiths).
It’s a waste of time and money – all of our politicians have much more important issues to work on. How about inflation? Cost and availability of quality healthcare? Cost and availability of housing? Living wages, protection of Medicare and social security benefits? Protecting the environment? Anything but this. It’s the definition of shoving ideas down your throat. This should really be a case of “Well, no fucking duh.” I am assuming that all other religions will also be permitted to place a similar monuments upon the school properties too. What’s good for one is good for all! Right?
Imagine if people demanded to teach polytheism in schools. The majority of Christians would freak the fuck out. Which 10 commandments? There’s different versions depending on which faith you follow, even differences in the text of Exodus. Will we include the mention of building a temple on Mount Gerizim that’s only in the Samaritan version? If only there was a piece of paper that people claim to live by, but have never read and ignore it when inconvenient…
The fact that a court even needed to make this ruling in the year 2025 is just mind boggling. Religions really need to start being treated like the fairy tales that they are. After a certain age we should be telling kids that “god” and all the nonsense in all the religious texts is no more real than Santa Clause and the Easter bunny. More like the Ten Suggestions Well, duh. And Republicans have never been about defending the Constitution, they want a theocracy.
The people fighting the hardest for this stupidity break these ‘rules’ regularly. If you need an archaic set of rules to follow to be a good person, you’re already lost. Evangelicals are fundamentally against democratic institutions and a constitution that represents everyone. Let’s see what SCOTUS will say about this. *SCOTUS has entered the chat.* Is there anything preventing schools from posting them with a disclaimer next to it saying it’s all make believe bullshit? Malicious compliance is the best type of compliance.
The evangelical church I used to go to back in the day always said that “separation of church and state” *actually* only meant keeping the government out of the church, not the other way around. That’s what they seriously believe. You missed the Golden Rule: Rules for Thee, but Not for Me. These people pick and choose what parts of the Bible should be followed, of course they do the same with the Constitution. “Those are for the fake religions, not my correct religion!” The irony is the one screaming about freedom and individualism are the ones who want to force their world views on everyone It really is.
The people who claim America is and was always meant to be a Christian Nation will lie to you, to themselves. These are the people who will buy historical documents like they’re holy scriptures, then only let out the parts that align with their own beliefs – then go out of their way to deny anything that contradicts to it or go out of their way to lie and say “That doesn’t exist.”
Sorry. I got on a rant. But people who Lie for Jesus have a special place of hatred in my heart. Because we can have a really nice planet – except these assholes just can’t accept living in a world other than the ones where they are in control, and fuck you if you don’t like it. Yes. They want to be able to practice however they want, they want everyone else to practice the same way, and they want everyone who won’t conform to move. It’s weird that conservative “Christians” are so obsessed with the 10 “commandments” – and mistranslations of those verses at that! – yet don’t include Jesus most important teaching:
I’m going to change this to “republicans” because I’m not sure “conservative” actually means anything anymore (given their ability to happily adopt clearly non-conservative ideas as long as Trump likes them), while the republican party is an actual thing that exists and people are members of. “Rules for thee, not for me” is the only thing they understand.
They were just holding on until the country was stupid enough to allow a republican win during a time where the court was very likely to have multiple justices replaced. The act of forcing others to post the Ten Commandments is by itself an act that violates Commandment #2: Do not take the Lord’s name in vain. By using the name of god in an inappropriate way to justify oppression (the true meaning of “in vain”), they are in violation of the same commandments they wish to force upon everyone else. Fun fact, this law was passed on a Sunday. One of the representatives who opposed this pointed out that the law requiring showing the ten commandments was created as a direct violation of one of the commandments. They know the Supreme Court is willing to ignore the law, so they’re doing this so they can erode separation of church and state through that kangaroo court. They know it’s not legal, this is intentional.