Christians join Jewish, Hindu plaintiffs in Texas lawsuit against Ten Commandments in schools

Michie said:

Austin pastor claims Senate Bill 10 is 'un-American and un-Baptist'

A newly-passed Texas law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms is facing a second interfaith legal challenge.

A lawsuit filed by a coalition of 16 families spanning Jewish, Christian, Unitarian Universalist, Hindu and nonreligious backgrounds argues that Senate Bill 10 violates the First Amendment’s guarantees of church-state separation and the free exercise of religion. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, with legal support from the ACLU of Texas, the ACLU, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Wisconsin-based atheist group Freedom From Religion Foundation.

Signed into law last month, SB 10 requires schools to post the Ten Commandments, measuring at least 16-by-20 inches in a legible typeface, in a “conspicuous place” in every classroom.

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Christians join Jewish, Hindu plaintiffs in Texas lawsuit against Ten Commandments in schools

A newly-passed Texas law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms is facing a second interfaith legal challenge

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With the latest ruling by SCOTUS on parent's rights to opt out of classes that use LGTB issues, we'll see if they are consistent on their ruling.

I would personally encourage Christians to put their children in Christian schools and do MORE than just put the 10 commandments on the wall.

KT

KevinT said:

I would personally encourage Christians to put their children in Christian schools and do MORE than just put the 10 commandments on the wall.

KT

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Yes, put Jesus in their hearts.

Michie said:

Austin pastor claims Senate Bill 10 is 'un-American and un-Baptist'

A newly-passed Texas law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms is facing a second interfaith legal challenge.

A lawsuit filed by a coalition of 16 families spanning Jewish, Christian, Unitarian Universalist, Hindu and nonreligious backgrounds argues that Senate Bill 10 violates the First Amendment’s guarantees of church-state separation and the free exercise of religion. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, with legal support from the ACLU of Texas, the ACLU, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Wisconsin-based atheist group Freedom From Religion Foundation.

Signed into law last month, SB 10 requires schools to post the Ten Commandments, measuring at least 16-by-20 inches in a legible typeface, in a “conspicuous place” in every classroom.

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Christians join Jewish, Hindu plaintiffs in Texas lawsuit against Ten Commandments in schools

A newly-passed Texas law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms is facing a second interfaith legal challenge

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I speak out against people, laws, and policies that oppose God, the Bible, and Christianity, and unfortunately that includes many professing Christians on a variety of issues. The wall of separation of church and state within America is one of those issues.
Our entire culture has been brainwashed to accept Jefferson's misinterpreted phrase, especially since liberal Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black canonized the phrase into law in 1947 - effectively rejecting both God and America's Founding Fathers' intentions. With the Freedom From Religion, American Humanist Association, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the ACLU and other vocal anti-God organizations pushing the agenda, we have moved from a Christian nation towards a secular one. Against 300 years of religious history, the past 75 years has brought us from a legal and cultural goal of freedom of religion to freedom from religion. (Ironically though the nation's really only swapped one religion for another - spiritualism or naturalism)

To anyone studying America's early history, the Biblical foundations and Christian heritage is pervasive throughout the original settlement charters, established laws, created universities, public textbooks, town and street names, government buildings, declarations, actions, and political speeches. The masses deny this but only reveal their ignorance or hearts in doing so.
The atheist or other anti-Christian who rejects God or his providential hand in the country's affairs has a heart problem, but at least is consistent and rational in some respects. The professing Christian or Catholic though that denies America's Christian heritage by advocating a separation of church and state is just seriously ignorant and misguided - in the same way as those believers who embrace evolution, abortion, gay marriage, transgendersim, anti-death penalty, and other unbiblical anti-God values. To these supposed believers, I ask you to reconsider your contradicting beliefs and values.

Personally, I'm surprised that Texas has passed a law that clearly defies the 1980 Supreme Court ruling prohibiting the posting of the 10 Commandments in public schools. I hope though that this terrible ruling, which snubbed both God and the Founding Fathers who wrote the Constitution's First Amendment, will ultimately be overruled. With lawsuits already filed, pray that this issue's case makes it to the Supreme Court and that God gives the majority there the courage to overturn another ungodly (and unconstitutional) ruling as was done with abortion.

And for those unbelievers I offer this advice on the issue. Take a look at the 10 commandments again and decide whether you really want to fight such rules of conduct influencing our impressionable children. I'll tell you this: since removing God, the Bible, and moral value teachings from the nation's public school system in the mid 20th century, our teen pregnancies, suicides, and school shootings have skyrocketed; respect for parents, police, elders and life itself declined; and cultural moral values degraded to shameful levels. Don't you think there might be a connection between what kids learn in school and how they grow up to think and act? The 10 Commandments summarize the two most important things in life: to love God and to love people. Even an atheist should be able to appreciate the teaching of children these two principles that ultimately encourage individual responsibility, respect for others, and a society of moral values.

Some Christians hate their own religion, I'm convinced of it. Their true faith is in multifaith, multicultural liberalism.

What we really need is legislation mandating the Holy Cross and the reproductions of the icon of our Lord and the Theotokos painted by St. Luke, the Christ Pantocrator Icon, the Icon Not Made by Hands, the Ladder of Divine Ascent, the Iveron icon and other wonder-working icons and icons of miraculous origin on the walls of our schools.

Insofar as this requires Orthodox parents to not use public schools, good, because even in conservative states like Texas the public schools are horrible; in either case you get liberal teachers, but in some states like Texas these teachers can inflict corporal punishment (there was a horrifying case in Tennessee where a single mother was threatened with a CPS referral if she did not agree to her five year old being paddled; fortunately she filmed the abuse and uploaded it to the Internet).

The cruelty inflicted by so many public school teachers in the US, with or without corporal punishment (for example, psychological cruelty) is unimaginable in its scale and is a key factor in the moral decline of our country.

I myself in the fourth grade, the only year I did not attend parochial school, was a victim of two liberal teachers who engaged in vile mind games with students in a class only intellectually advanced children could attend - it was the only year I was in public school. To give an example of their perversity, one monday they brought the class a new pet, a lobster, had us name the lobster, write poems and stories about the lobster over the next few days and on Friday it was on the menu.

Fortunately the principal, who was a goof man, became aware they were going after me in particular and shielded me. I thank God for him, based on his age at the time I dont know if he is still alive but I do believe my Principal together with my parents and my cub scout leader, a retired Army major, saved me through their collective intervention from potentially severe mental health consequences, which happened to at least two other boys from that class.