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  1. Reading David C. Hoffman's American Freethought (2025) and saw the National Liberal League's 1880 presidential platform, including this plank:

    "Universal education the basis of universal suffrage in this secular republic."

    As true now as it was then.

    #history #nonreligion #freethought #ChurchState

  2. Today, Doña Ana County commissioners voted to drop invocations from their business meetings. Residents have taken to public comments to debate the practice of ceremonial prayers before meetings for a couple of years, culminating in a passionate debate and today’s vote.

    abqjournal.com/news/article_98

    #NewMexico #churchstateseparation #churchstate #prayer

  3. Today, Doña Ana County commissioners voted to drop invocations from their business meetings. Residents have taken to public comments to debate the practice of ceremonial prayers before meetings for a couple of years, culminating in a passionate debate and today’s vote.

    abqjournal.com/news/article_98

    #NewMexico #churchstateseparation #churchstate #prayer

  4. Today, Doña Ana County commissioners voted to drop invocations from their business meetings. Residents have taken to public comments to debate the practice of ceremonial prayers before meetings for a couple of years, culminating in a passionate debate and today’s vote.

    abqjournal.com/news/article_98

    #NewMexico #churchstateseparation #churchstate #prayer

  5. Today, Doña Ana County commissioners voted to drop invocations from their business meetings. Residents have taken to public comments to debate the practice of ceremonial prayers before meetings for a couple of years, culminating in a passionate debate and today’s vote.

    abqjournal.com/news/article_98

    #NewMexico #churchstateseparation #churchstate #prayer

  6. #SOCAS NEWS -

    #US. #Christians pushing back on #Christiannationalism

    They’ve come for the #Haitians: Why we need #churchstate separation for #immigrants’ rights

    #SupremeCourt asked to consider #Oklahoma #religious #charterschool’s case

    Oklahoma defends #Bibles-in-#schools proposal after report that only Trump’s might qualify

    Organization Did Not Show That Its #AntiAbortion Views Are Religious #Beliefs

    #Confessions of a (Former) #Christian #Nationalist

    flipboard.com/@dustcircle/chur

  7. #MSNBC analyst Angela-something characterized the Oklahoma law requiring teaching of the Bible in classrooms as an instance of the tension between the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment.

    Er. . . what? That’s 180° wrong, and you don’t even have to be a lawyer to see it. If the law engages with Free Exercise at all (debatable), surely it’s violative — as it quite obviously is with respect to the Establishment Clause.

    In other words: the two clauses are working together against this law. That’s the opposite of “tension”.

    MSNBC, either you quoted Angela way out of context, or you need a new analyst (preferably one who took at least one con law class).

    #constitution #Oklahoma #schools #1stAMENDMENT #FreeExercise #EstablishmentClause #religion #ChurchState #teachers #law #journalism

  8. #MSNBC analyst Angela-something characterized the Oklahoma law requiring teaching of the Bible in classrooms as an instance of the tension between the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment.

    Er. . . what? That’s 180° wrong, and you don’t even have to be a lawyer to see it. If the law engages with Free Exercise at all (debatable), surely it’s violative — as it quite obviously is with respect to the Establishment Clause.

    In other words: the two clauses are working together against this law. That’s the opposite of “tension”.

    MSNBC, either you quoted Angela way out of context, or you need a new analyst (preferably one who took at least one con law class).

    #constitution #Oklahoma #schools #1stAMENDMENT #FreeExercise #EstablishmentClause #religion #ChurchState #teachers #law #journalism

  9. #MSNBC analyst Angela-something characterized the Oklahoma law requiring teaching of the Bible in classrooms as an instance of the tension between the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment.

    Er. . . what? That’s 180° wrong, and you don’t even have to be a lawyer to see it. If the law engages with Free Exercise at all (debatable), surely it’s violative — as it quite obviously is with respect to the Establishment Clause.

    In other words: the two clauses are working together against this law. That’s the opposite of “tension”.

    MSNBC, either you quoted Angela way out of context, or you need a new analyst (preferably one who took at least one con law class).

    #constitution #Oklahoma #schools #1stAMENDMENT #FreeExercise #EstablishmentClause #religion #ChurchState #teachers #law #journalism

  10. #MSNBC analyst Angela-something characterized the Oklahoma law requiring teaching of the Bible in classrooms as an instance of the tension between the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment.

    Er. . . what? That’s 180° wrong, and you don’t even have to be a lawyer to see it. If the law engages with Free Exercise at all (debatable), surely it’s violative — as it quite obviously is with respect to the Establishment Clause.

    In other words: the two clauses are working together against this law. That’s the opposite of “tension”.

    MSNBC, either you quoted Angela way out of context, or you need a new analyst (preferably one who took at least one con law class).

    #constitution #Oklahoma #schools #1stAMENDMENT #FreeExercise #EstablishmentClause #religion #ChurchState #teachers #law #journalism

  11. #MSNBC analyst Angela-something characterized the Oklahoma law requiring teaching of the Bible in classrooms as an instance of the tension between the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment.

    Er. . . what? That’s 180° wrong, and you don’t even have to be a lawyer to see it. If the law engages with Free Exercise at all (debatable), surely it’s violative — as it quite obviously is with respect to the Establishment Clause.

    In other words: the two clauses are working together against this law. That’s the opposite of “tension”.

    MSNBC, either you quoted Angela way out of context, or you need a new analyst (preferably one who took at least one con law class).

    #constitution #Oklahoma #schools #1stAMENDMENT #FreeExercise #EstablishmentClause #religion #ChurchState #teachers #law #journalism

  12. "[Louisiana's] HB71 also specifies what those schools can’t say. A school or teacher could not, for example, decide to display copies of Thomas Jefferson’s Letter to the Danbury Baptists (building a 'wall of separation between Church and State') alongside the Ten Commandments," (continued in /2)

    ~ Andrew Torrez

    #Louisiana #TenCommandments #ChurchandState #ChurchState
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    lawandchaospod.com/p/louisiana

  13. Because they see the willingness of the right-wing bloc controlling the court to erode the church-state line, these states are seeking to set up cases that will open the door for the Supremes to overturn precedents affirming church-state separation.

    Once that separation is overturned, church obtains the power to rule, to coerce, to force the majority who do not agree with its ideas to dance to its tune. This is ultimately what the minority wants.

    #SupremeCourt #ChurchState #evangelicals
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  14. As Lisa Needham notes, Louisiana's Ten Commandments law is designed to give the right-wing Supreme Court justices who want to erase the line between church and state cherry-picked pseudohistorical examples to justify that erasure.

    Driven by a powerful evangelical minority, a number of states are "hoping to bend the Constitution until it breaks."

    #SupremeCourt #Louisiana #TenCommandments #ChurchState #evangelicals
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    publicnotice.co/p/louisiana-te