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c/politics · by MicroWave@lemmy.world · 1y

Gov. Greg Abbott signs bill requiring Ten Commandments to be displayed in Texas classrooms

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/texas-ten-commandments-classroom-law-gov-abbott-signs-sb10/

Texas will require all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments under a new law that will make the state the nation's largest to attempt to impose such a mandate.

Gov. Greg Abbott announced Saturday that he signed the bill, which is expected to draw a legal challenge from critics who consider it an unconstitutional violation of the separation of church and state.

A similar law in Louisiana was blocked when a federal appeals court ruled Friday that it was unconstitutional. Arkansas also has a similar law that has been challenged in federal court.

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RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world · 105 pts · 1y (4 replies)
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chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 1y

It's part of the strategy. Keep people's heads spinning and see what sticks. Even if one or two things survive, it pushes everything towards their goal.

lupusblackfur@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 1y (1 reply)

If at first you don't get the ruling you want, keep trying and appealing and bringing case after case until you get the ruling you want. It's the MAGAt way.

(Also profitable for lawyers...)

🤦‍♀️ 🙄 🤡 🖕 💩

riskable@programming.dev · 1 pts · 1y

Actually I believe the correct term is, "fascism"

MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz · 76 pts · 1y (9 replies)

Passing Laws that have ALREADY been Deemed UNCONSTITUTIONAL is a GREAT use of Taxpayer Money!

notfromhere@lemmy.ml · 21 pts · 1y (3 replies)

This GUYS’ Comment History.

Kayday@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y (2 replies)

You WEREN'T kidding

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Well THAT'S fucking COMMITMENT

FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

I wish my FIRST WIFE had that level of COMMITMENT

Lemming6969@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

Doing so should automatically trigger a review, where losing again automatically means you lose your seat and a special election is called.

Witchfire@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

They know SCROTUS is going to uphold it

JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

That was the other supreme court. This supreme court is different.

macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

You do not know how to properly use capital letters.

ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y

Lmao I always love when my tags are 100% right and then come back when I have totally forgotten about them. (P.S. please don’t hate me it’s all just a lighthearted joke)

Zombiepirate@lemmy.world · 57 pts · 1y (4 replies)

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Matthew 6:5-6

CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 1y (2 replies)

This verse is superceded by the Supply Side Jesus version

Be sure to rub your faith into the face of your enemies, especially if they are woke and liberal. Because seeing them panic makes God happy and therefore you happy. While you're at it, make sure everyone with dark colored skin suffers even more.

Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Oh my lord. Where did you source this from?

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

Al Franken wrote about Supply Side Jesus. This is the animated version...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc-LJ_3VbUA

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

IKR? I cannot tell you how many xtians get butthurt when I tell them that "the" bible that they pretend to looooove so very much tells them to keep their religion in the closet. Literally.

griff@lemmings.world · 24 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Finally!!! Christian Texans will stop lying & killing people, right???

riskable@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y

I can understand the appeal of the Ten Commandments to conservatives. Each commandment has its own prescribed punishment and for Texans, especially, I'm sure they all sound fantastic:

  1. Death.
  2. Death.
  3. Death.
  4. Death.
  5. Death.
  6. Death.
  7. Death.
  8. Death.
  9. Death.
  10. Feces on their faces.
fluxion@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Along with an X next to every Commandment the president has broken

JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y

What is the school gonna do with ten X's? Pretty sure this dude isn't honoring his father or mother.

Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 1y

The Satanic Temple has entered the chat...

Bort@hilariouschaos.com · 14 pts · 1y (1 reply)

https://www.nola.com/news/education/louisiana-ten-commandments-law-unconstitutional-fifth-circuit/article_7cf2f7a8-8225-4abd-9836-6a0eb3c65afa.html

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled this unconstitutional for a Louisiana law. We’ll see if it makes it to the Supreme Court.

ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

When the 5th circuit is making sense, you know you're really in a fucked up situation

runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 1y

Meanwhile someone at the ACLU:

Network Documents/

 Templates/
      Religious bullshit/
           Church-state violations/
                Texas/
                     _print_
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Get out your spray paint, kids.

s1ndr0m3@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

sPray paint

Pacattack57@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

Post them all in Farsi to enrage the MAGAts

msprout@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

looks at American media, seeing guns, violence, and killing glorified as a wonderful and direct means of solving problems

Hmm. Are we sure these are the correct Ten Commandments? There's not even anything in here about how seeing a woman's boob on television is a mortal sin.

BassTurd@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

I'm calling on all Texas children everywhere to vandalize these commandments at every opportunity. Maybe you can't or shouldn't march during tense situations on the streets, but you can protest in the class room. Walkouts, sit ins, general malfeasance... Let's see what this younger generation has.

JeSuisUnHombre@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y

Just what you expect from Greg "little piss baby" abbott

PieFedid10t@piefed.social · 5 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Enjoy your alt right fascist police state. Welcome to your 1984. Enjoy

RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y (5 replies)
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Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (4 replies)

But the courts keep getting packed by the right. No one expected Row v Wade to be overturned.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Unrelated (?)

The Nuclear Option: Judicial Engineering by Design

The term “nuclear option” sounds dramatic, but what unfolded was exactly that: a procedural detonation that reshaped the U.S. judiciary—and cleared the runway for Donald Trump’s legal invincibility. In 2017, Mitch McConnell pulled the nuclear trigger for Supreme Court confirmations. Facing a filibuster on Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch, McConnell changed the rules to force him through with just 51 votes.

What followed was a full-on Federalist Society takeover of the federal judiciary:

• 3 Supreme Court justices: Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett
• Over 200 lower court judges, all fast-tracked under the new simple-majority rules

Let’s just say: McConnell caught the car—which turned out to be a MAGA bus barreling straight toward the Constitution. And no, his idol Ronald Reagan wouldn’t be pleased—at this trajectory, our children will soon be learning Russian.

RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 1y (2 replies)
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CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

and Biden pack the courts like crazy as well before Trump came back into power

Tell me more about this. How so?

phdepressed@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y

Yet it was a Trump judge vying for a promotion that allowed him to retain control of CAs national guard.

It was a Trump judge that allowed him free from consequence for how he stored confidential documents in a bathroom near a copier while allowing visitors. There are enough of them and 6 on the Supreme court.

justsomeguy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Keep seeing teachers saying that kids in school can't read anymore so this seems unnecessary.

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

The qons, focusing on the most important things. I'm sure this will improve the lives of Texans.

🙄

msprout@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

in Texas, you say

QuantumToast@lemmy.zip · -13 pts · 1y
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