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#Texas can require the #TenCommandments to be displayed in #PublicSchool #classrooms, a #US appeals court ruled Tuesday in a victory for #conservatives who have long sought to incorporate more #religion into schools.
It sets up a potential clash at #SCOTUS over the issue in the future.
The ultra conservative #5thCircuit Court of Appeals claimed in the decision that the #law did not violate either the #EstablishmentClause or the #FreeExerciseClause of the #FirstAmendment. -
I grew up in religious day school and sent our kids to (a different) religious day school—I know as well as anybody how expensive it is to be #Jewish and raise Jewish kids. We need to fix that.
Wanna know was ISN'T the answer?
Federal funding for religious schools
The destruction of the #EstablishmentClause, and the revisionist transformation of the #FreeExerciseClause from shield to sword will destroy the broadly accepted status quo in this country. Every kid gets a free #education if they like; or, if they prefer, they may choose non-public options at their own cost. That way I don't have to subsidize (well, directly at least) some kid's Catholic school, and they don't have to subsidize my kids' Jewish day school.
What made this country so attractive for my ancestors (and those of tens of millions of others) was precisely the promise that the US wouldn't treat us differently based on our religion. Lose that, and you lose the essence of this nation.