"Separation of church and state" is a metaphor paraphrased from Thomas Jefferson and used by others in discussions of the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof". The principle is paraphrased from Jefferson's "separation between Church & State". It has been used to express the understanding of the intent and function of this amendment, which allows freedom of religion. Wikipedia
Well, I have been busy I read it on 5/23 with a promise to go back and watch the videos. It’s 5/24, just finished it. History has never been taught accurately. One of the guys mentioned that our children need God. What happened to parent choice here? The schools have been run by GOP for 30 years. Those same 30 years that students have had emotional and mental problems because the GOP has not been moral! They should look at themselves, are they good roll model’s! Greed, racism, having affairs on their spouse, not respecting females enough to give them choices and not respecting people to pay them a living wage. In Texas, paying people a living wage would help the children be more successful than they are today. Offering free breakfast and lunch would help students have better mental health. Good health care (Including having them in rural areas) would help students with their mental health. GOP is just making Texas worse! 🤦🏽♀️
Religion should be taught by their parents at home and in their church. I Thank God my children are not going to Public Schools today. They would not have become engineers. I sent them to public schools to learn Math, Science, English, Social Studies and fine arts/PE. I taught them religion. It should be Parents Choice! 🤬
I don’t want the state mandating any kind of religion. Honestly the only thing that is ok is Quakerism. Silent Meditation. That actually might help kids. No talking, no reading, no phones. But of course these legislators want to just hurt women and children by cutting healthcare. They all need to go.
Oh, Michelle. This one has pissed me all the way off. As always, thank you for putting this all together for us.
There are 45,000 different denominations of Christianity, so not even the Christians themselves can agree on one interpretation. I will always firmly believe in religious freedom. And I also know that it cannot be brought into the public domain (schools, legislatures, businesses, etc) without significant problems.
These fundamentalist Christians have an entire tax-free infrastructure in which they can participate outside of home and work. They can home school their children. They can surround themselves with people who agree with them. They can teach their children whatever they want. But you CANNOT do that to other people’s children. Ever. Period.
Amen to all you said, Michelle. I grew up in west Texas & back then, the southern Baptists were the white Christian Nationalists lite. This goes right along with their belief that no one needs to think for themselves, protect the planet or care for others who aren’t white or Christian because their main goal is to get to heaven & to hell with this God forsaken planet. What a way to live - making other people’s lives miserable.
"Separation of church and state" is a metaphor paraphrased from Thomas Jefferson and used by others in discussions of the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof". The principle is paraphrased from Jefferson's "separation between Church & State". It has been used to express the understanding of the intent and function of this amendment, which allows freedom of religion. Wikipedia
Well, I have been busy I read it on 5/23 with a promise to go back and watch the videos. It’s 5/24, just finished it. History has never been taught accurately. One of the guys mentioned that our children need God. What happened to parent choice here? The schools have been run by GOP for 30 years. Those same 30 years that students have had emotional and mental problems because the GOP has not been moral! They should look at themselves, are they good roll model’s! Greed, racism, having affairs on their spouse, not respecting females enough to give them choices and not respecting people to pay them a living wage. In Texas, paying people a living wage would help the children be more successful than they are today. Offering free breakfast and lunch would help students have better mental health. Good health care (Including having them in rural areas) would help students with their mental health. GOP is just making Texas worse! 🤦🏽♀️
Religion should be taught by their parents at home and in their church. I Thank God my children are not going to Public Schools today. They would not have become engineers. I sent them to public schools to learn Math, Science, English, Social Studies and fine arts/PE. I taught them religion. It should be Parents Choice! 🤬
I don’t want the state mandating any kind of religion. Honestly the only thing that is ok is Quakerism. Silent Meditation. That actually might help kids. No talking, no reading, no phones. But of course these legislators want to just hurt women and children by cutting healthcare. They all need to go.
Sometimes the Spirit moves someone to speak at a Friends Meeting
Oh, Michelle. This one has pissed me all the way off. As always, thank you for putting this all together for us.
There are 45,000 different denominations of Christianity, so not even the Christians themselves can agree on one interpretation. I will always firmly believe in religious freedom. And I also know that it cannot be brought into the public domain (schools, legislatures, businesses, etc) without significant problems.
These fundamentalist Christians have an entire tax-free infrastructure in which they can participate outside of home and work. They can home school their children. They can surround themselves with people who agree with them. They can teach their children whatever they want. But you CANNOT do that to other people’s children. Ever. Period.
Yeah, they pissed me off, too. 😡 The last two weeks are always the worst. Unfortunately, more bad things are coming.
Amen to all you said, Michelle. I grew up in west Texas & back then, the southern Baptists were the white Christian Nationalists lite. This goes right along with their belief that no one needs to think for themselves, protect the planet or care for others who aren’t white or Christian because their main goal is to get to heaven & to hell with this God forsaken planet. What a way to live - making other people’s lives miserable.
It must be very stressful.