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How can this possibly be constitutional?

Exactly what I said. That a lot of people view the Gay/Trans posters that plaster public schools down to kindergarten as "satanic."
To be sure, a state law mandating the placement of these posters in every classroom would also be wrong. It would not be quite as wrong as placing Ten Commandments posters, because religion is specifically recognized as a fundamental right in special need of protection.

Parents have a right to see gay/trans posters as satanic if they want to. They have a right to disagree. What they should not have a right to do is to completely censor all mention of gay/trans from the school, because the school needs to have harmonious order to function, and harmonious order requires that kids who understand they are gay or straight or whatever can work and play beside one another without conflict. It also requires that kids should be able to express their various beliefs without conflict, except the permissible conflict of intellectual argument that should pervade a free society.

We must look deep into ourselves and one another to find a way to not merely uphold the rights of all people, but to respect them. Each single person must be able, at the same time, to understand:
  1. that anti-gay discrimination (or worse) is deeply hurtful, fundamentally useless, has broken families apart and snuffed out many good lives entirely, and stains the honor of the faith they may be seeking to uphold.
  2. that HIV was in the United States population before Stonewall, and that half a million people died because of attitudes that pleasure is simply good and doesn't require any prudent moral consideration.
Such attitudes can be reconciled by understanding that "sexual sin" is not something magic, but has the same mundane nature as beating someone over the head. If you are risking someone's life while you say you love them, if you're breaking hearts and causing misery, if you're leaving children without support, then these are mundane, not supernatural acts. Such sins can be sharply reduced by mundane measures, such as wearing a rubber, though the sacrament of marriage offers a far deeper religious dimension. The two sides do not have to go to war, but would learn and grow and do right by their children through a sincere peace.
 
Exactly what I said. That a lot of people view the Gay/Trans posters that plaster public schools down to kindergarten as "satanic."
Yes, we know a lot of people are irrational or downright delusional, especially those who see "satanic" in things. But what public schools have these so called posters? Can you provide an example of such a poster?
 
As we slide more towards theocracy, we slide downhill.
 
Being a Christian doesn't give you any right to determine who else is one, what constitutes one.

13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
15 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. "Not everyone who says to me 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many deeds of power in your name?' Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; go away from me, you evildoers’" (Matthew 7:13-23).
 
13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
15 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. "Not everyone who says to me 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many deeds of power in your name?' Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; go away from me, you evildoers’" (Matthew 7:13-23).
Doesn't mean jack. Interpretation, translation, edition, version all go into play not to mention simply seeing the book as a possible guide, written by men but Jesus's teachings as the key would still make a person a Christian.
 
Have you been in elementary schools and seen trans and gay posters plastered all over the school. Tell us about your experience.

Two weeks ago in my grandson's kindergarten room. The gay rainbow is everywhere in public schools. It was all exposed during COVID. Defend it or don't - lying no longer works.
 
I'm a little late to this party, but I urge everyone to look up the Ten Commandments. One thing to notice is that there are differences in the numbering used by different traditions. They are backing Protestant, not Catholic numbering - making it clear where the state stands in that ancient and well-known schism. But it gets worse: they EDITED the Commandments. Heavily. For brevity, convenience, and to emphasize their own way of thinking. Many say that it should say "commit murder" instead of "kill", for example.

Now, what would the Jewish tradition say about this, at least as translated by Christians?

All told, I think this law should disturb the religious people more than the atheists.
I'm agnostic and it doesn't bother me at all. But I'm not a leftist bent on micromanaging others.
 
Yes, we call them "democrats."



All of them.



ROFL

Do you really think you can get the cat back into the bag?
Ok, so you have nothing of value to offer. Duly noted.
 
I'm agnostic and it doesn't bother me at all. But I'm not a leftist bent on micromanaging others.
This response confuses me. My expectation is that people with strong, specific religious beliefs would be most perturbed by "dumbed-down" commandments, so you're not inconsistent with this pattern.

Telling teachers what they have to post in their classroom sounds like micromanagement to me. Broad management would be something like "teachers are encouraged to talk about religion and associated philosophical issues".
 
Two weeks ago in my grandson's kindergarten room. The gay rainbow is everywhere in public schools. It was all exposed during COVID. Defend it or don't - lying no longer works.
How about a description of the posters and the wording on them. Little children are much given to drawing rainbows (long before the rainbow was co-opted by the LGBT movement). Were you seeing these drawings or were you seeing commercial posters. Descriptions are needed here to validate your experience. Repeating that gay and trans posters are everywhere and proving it by saying your grandson's kindergarten had pictures of rainbows isn't supporting your claim.
 
You are not a Christian and shouldn't be making any determination as to what constitutes one.

I am not the one who is doing it, you and your fellow Christians are. I am willing to take so Eo word they they consider themselves a Christian even if what they believe doesn’t line up with any other Christian’s beliefs. Frankly everyone can keep claiming to be a Christian but when they say their way is the one true way I will always question that. That is because they are claiming something entirely subjective has some objectively verifiable facts. There are zero objectively true religious beliefs in the world. But whoever wants to claim they believe something I can only take their word for it.
 
I am not the one who is doing it, you and your fellow Christians are. I am willing to take so Eo word they they consider themselves a Christian even if what they believe doesn’t line up with any other Christian’s beliefs. Frankly everyone can keep claiming to be a Christian but when they say their way is the one true way I will always question that. That is because they are claiming something entirely subjective has some objectively verifiable facts. There are zero objectively true religious beliefs in the world. But whoever wants to claim they believe something I can only take their word for it.
You don't apply that to Evolutionist vs Creationist "scientists" I bet... And it is not between one Christian vs another. It's about what one person says the Bible says vs. what the Bible says.
 
You don't apply that to Evolutionist vs Creationist "scientists" I bet... And it is not between one Christian vs another. It's about what one person says the Bible says vs. what the Bible says.

There is no such thing as creationist science. So any scientist that is a creationist simply is a scientist with a religious belief. There are plenty of scientists with religious beliefs. It doesn’t change science one bit.
 
You don't apply that to Evolutionist vs Creationist "scientists" I bet... And it is not between one Christian vs another. It's about what one person says the Bible says vs. what the Bible says.
Creationism isn't science.
 
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