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Related: About this forumMississippi Bill Forcing Teachers to Recite the Ten Commandments Daily Is Dead
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Mississippi Bill Forcing Teachers to Recite the Ten Commandments Daily Is Dead
February 1, 2018 by Hemant Mehta
Well, that didnt take long.
A Mississippi Democrats bill to force teachers to recite the Ten Commandments at the beginning of every school day is dead, a mere 15 days after being introduced.
House Bill 1100, sponsored by State Rep. Credell Calhoun, would have amended the law by requiring a moment of silence at the beginning of every school day (rather than keeping it optional), requiring a copy of the Ten Commandments to go up in every classroom (in addition to the already-required In God We Trust signs), and requiring teachers to say the Ten Commandments (unless they opted out of it).
I have no idea why Calhoun thought kindergartners needed a daily reminder not to commit adultery, but nothing in the bill was useful or constitutional. Had it passed, it would likely have been the subject of lawsuits from various church/state separation groups.
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Mississippi Bill Forcing Teachers to Recite the Ten Commandments Daily Is Dead (Original Post)
NeoGreen
Feb 2018
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guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)1. #6
NeoGreen
(4,031 posts)2. #6 did not orginate with either the Jews or christions...
...it is not a "christian" or "Jewish" idea, it is culturally universal and can even be documented back to the Greeks and Hammurabi.
Transubstantiation on the other hand...now that's uniquely christian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transubstantiation
But you don't see that carved on a rock.
Cuthbert Allgood
(4,961 posts)5. No kidding. Before the god of Abraham gave those tablets to Moses
it was just a fucking murder-fest everywhere. NOBODY had EVER thought that murder might be a good idea.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)3. Guarantee the author of this bill violates the 10 daily.
Ilsa
(61,697 posts)4. "Mommy, what's adultery?"
"It's something mean that donald trump does a lot."