Some may think SCROTUS gave coaches the right to coerce their players to pray with them, wrong.
”The U.S. Department of Education has issued updated guidance on prayer and other religious expressions in public schools.”
”The guidance follows last year's U.S. Supreme Court decision Kennedy vs. Bremerton, which held that a public school district could not stop a football coach from praying on the 50-yard line after games. The court ruled that such prayer was a personal religious observance and that preventing someone from engaging in such a practice violated the First Amendment's protections for free speech and the free exercise of religion.”
”The new guidance says "Teachers, school administrators, and other school employees may not encourage or discourage private prayer or other religious activity."
”It goes on to say the U.S. Constitution allows school employees themselves to engage in private prayer during the workday. But it warns that they may not "compel, coerce, persuade, or encourage students to join in the employee's prayer or other religious activity."
”The guidance also says a school may take reasonable measures to ensure students aren't pressured to join in their teachers' or coaches' prayers.”
[npr.org]
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Texas is enacting a law mandating religious eduction and that teachers can force prayer and preach during the school day.
Of course it will be challenged in court, but we now have a Supreme Court intent to impose religious law.
BufftonBeotch
Level 8
May 21, 2023
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States/politicians' (and I use the word loosely) can mandate all they want. FFRF will and does sue for such a total unconstitutional ruling. It will be a long and total abrogation of set law to overturn the public paying for religious indoctrination. To me overturning this ruling, which has been the foundation of our way of life will be worse than overturning the right to an abortion and will totally nullify any sense of authority SCROTUS may still have.
@jackjr Well. Kiss freedom from religion goodbye. Especially if the flim flam orangutan gets back in.
You will live in a dictatorship and his worthless crotch critters will rule after him.
@BufftonBeotch It will not be a slam dunk as 'some' may think. The orange ball will not win another round and will, most probably end up with a suit to match his ugly body. I have a little more faith (born from information that shows the anti-religious crusade is working) than some. In my part of the country things are a lot better politically than other parts.
@jackjr I have hated him since he took out a full page ad trying to get those children lynched.
And he has still not apologized for it.
@BufftonBeotch No one should hold their breath in hoping this POS will take responsibility for anything he does. It will ALWAYS be someone else's fault.
If you read how all of this is worded it shows me that nothing is going to change. "Personal religious observations" have no right at all being in a public school of any kind. I might add again that lots of people my age pretend to remember prayer in public schools. I say "pretend" because it was only after O"Hair won her court decision on prayer that the school I was in started saying "those who would like can now have one minute of silent prayer." I do not remember any other prayer in school at any time. I simply cannot remember praying in school other than what I am now writing. It's so strange to me that even those I went to school with are so brainwashed as to say "we removed god from our schools." God was not there in the first place and diehard GOP kids claim the bible was our first weekly readers. Does it help to know that the Weekly Reader first started in 1928. Keep your god in your religion and not in my school.
DenoPenno
Level 9
May 21, 2023
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Reducing personal agendas is what performance reports are about.
SCROTUS? I hadn't heard that before! LMAO!!!!
@TheoryNumber3 Maybe a joke like SCROTUM?
@BufftonBeotch I kinda figured that out. That's why I'm laughing.
@TheoryNumber3 My term for what this group has now become.
@rainmanjr Whether or not such issues ever get addressed depends a lot on who conducts the evaluation. What if the school has a multi-level religious cabal?
Sounds like the school districts are doing what they can to respect the wall of separation between church and state. Not any easy task when you have a right-wing, Christofascist-friendly majority on the SCOTUS.
Flyingsaucesir
Level 8
May 21, 2023
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Probably just the first step in the talibanization of america
bookofmorons
Level 9
May 21, 2023
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Tell me more about this please.
"First" step.... Religious extremism is always been a thing!
Just look up what the word "Puritan" was originally slang for. And also how many of the early religious settlers of America responded to visual depictions of Jesus Christ...
The failure to treat theocracy as a threat to democracy cannot be continued.
@domos They did not come here because they were oppressed. They came here to be able to impose their religion on others and to violently punish them.
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