"I think this would be a good healthy step for Texas to bring back this tradition of recognizing America’s religious heritage," said Sen. Phil King, R, who sponsored the bill.
The upper chamber also on Thursday passed a bill empowering school districts to require that public schools provide time for students to pray or read a religious text.
"Separation of church and state" is not a constitutional concept, despite what anyone, including courts say. It's just a bullshit interpretation.
The government should be allowed to be religious without violating the first amendment, they just cannot prevent you from being a different religion.
Moreover, people should vote with their religion in mind. If a person is truly religious, their religion guides them in every choice they make, so how could they possibly vote without their religion in mind? As such, if the population is predominantly one religion and therefore the majority votes with that religion's ideas in mind, how is it possible to have a government that is completely devoid of all religious principles?
If you believe that abortion is wrong, you vote that abortion should be illegal. It doesn't matter if the reason you believe abortion is wrong is religious or completely secular, it's still your opinion. If you recognize that your religion drives your morality, should you recuse yourself of voting on any issue that involves morality? Do you somehow ignore your own morality and try to vote based on some sense of secular morality which you don't personally agree with? It's impossible.
Religious populations lead to religious governments under democracy. To try to artificially prevent that is to undermine the principles of democracy.
The first amendment literally says Congress shall not create laws respecting any religion.
Exactly. So there should be no law saying anything about religion.
Laws preventing religious display are unconstitutional. It is not constitutional to prevent the display of the 10 commandments.
Laws that enforce government actions in displaying and teaching religious doctrine are unconstitutional, especially if it's in the form of a publicly funded institution.
Would you want state sanctioned Satanism or Islam being taught in school?
No, it says it shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. That is, it can't openly support a specific Church or group. It doesn't mean it can't have religious values.
That's a bit of a stretch. An establishment could mean a specific church denomination, or it could mean an established religion all together.
By your logic, schools should be able to preach Satanic and Islamic principles as long as it doesn't dip its toes into a specific denomination of either.
Schools should answer to the people they serve. So if the people they serve want Islamic or Satanic principles preached, then they should be able to, yes. It's our job to ensure that doesn't happen by ensuring our communities don't steer in the wrong direction that would allow that (which we are utterly failing at now, and schools are the least of our concerns with the way society is heading).
i do believe abortion is wrong, 1000%. but it is not up to me to tell others they can't, that is between them and God. but it should be up to me to NOT have to pay for these abortions. if they want an abortion, then they should have to pay for it themselves.
What about murder? Should murder not be illegal because that's between the murderer and God?
i totally believe abortion is murder, and no i don't condone any type of murder. what i was trying to say is they don't believe it's a baby, they believe it's a clump of cells, even at 9 months they won't say it's a baby. but they want the right to abort it. what i was trying to say is that i'm not trying to take away anyone's rights (it's what they say we are doing), even if i don't agree with them. but what is truly wrong is to make the people who do believe it's murder, pay for it. Planned Parenthood is funded with tax dollars.
these people don't understand we are not only fighting for the baby, but if they choose to take it's life, i do NOT want to be forced to pay for it. and i believe God will deal with them.
just like they should not have the right to force me to take a vaccine i don't want. it's all about my body my choice with them until we choose to NOT do what they want. sorry this is so long. i hope i explained Ok?
If you believe it is murder, then how is it not your business just the same as stopping any other murder is your business? Why does their belief that it is not murder mean you shouldn't involve yourself? If a crazy many genuinely believes murderering white people isn't murder, and goes on a killing spree, is that between him and God, too?