To be consistent, let's hope that when it comes to the 10 commandments being required in schools:...-“Families, not the government, families should be responsible for their children’s religion,” she said.
Every year we always have a bunch of legislators trying to push religion into public schools or public money into religious schools. Just STOP already!
Thank you, Representative Healy, for your common sense. I agree with SFmama4, when she says, Stop already. Stop pushing the Christian religion into public schools and public money into private schools. Our kids can be taught about being a good person without being surrounded by chaplains and Ten Commandments.
Thank goodness the legislature had the wisdom to kill this nonsense bill. The proposal would open the constitutionality of wiccans and satanists to be school "mentors". The legislatures religious nationalist would be mortified to see chaplains of Buddhists, Muhammadanism, and even, gasp, Hebrews trolling school halls as mentors. Don't smirk. The highest growing religious affiliation for decades of the US military is Islam. The military is forced to recruit among the lower economic groups because your brats in the higher economic spheres are taught they owe no public service to the US, and are too often physically and mentally unfit for service.
Thank goodness the legislature paid homage to our founders' rejection of religiously in the founding and development of this nation - they learned from centuries on nonsensical European religious wars. Let's not slide back into the Middle Ages.
Rep. Erin Healy argued the bill would undermine the rights of parents to ensure their children are receiving instruction in beliefs they agree with.
“Families, not the government, families should be responsible for their children’s religion,” she said.
“This bill,” she added, “doesn’t strengthen religious freedom. It threatens it.”
Thank you, Rep. Healy, we need a majority of legislators who think & act as you do. Unfortunately here in District 29 we have a state senator who wants the 10 Commandments taught in our public schools, yet he homeschools his own children.
To be consistent, let's hope that when it comes to the 10 commandments being required in schools:...-“Families, not the government, families should be responsible for their children’s religion,” she said.
Every year we always have a bunch of legislators trying to push religion into public schools or public money into religious schools. Just STOP already!
Thank you, Representative Healy, for your common sense. I agree with SFmama4, when she says, Stop already. Stop pushing the Christian religion into public schools and public money into private schools. Our kids can be taught about being a good person without being surrounded by chaplains and Ten Commandments.
Thank goodness the legislature had the wisdom to kill this nonsense bill. The proposal would open the constitutionality of wiccans and satanists to be school "mentors". The legislatures religious nationalist would be mortified to see chaplains of Buddhists, Muhammadanism, and even, gasp, Hebrews trolling school halls as mentors. Don't smirk. The highest growing religious affiliation for decades of the US military is Islam. The military is forced to recruit among the lower economic groups because your brats in the higher economic spheres are taught they owe no public service to the US, and are too often physically and mentally unfit for service.
Thank goodness the legislature paid homage to our founders' rejection of religiously in the founding and development of this nation - they learned from centuries on nonsensical European religious wars. Let's not slide back into the Middle Ages.
Rep. Erin Healy argued the bill would undermine the rights of parents to ensure their children are receiving instruction in beliefs they agree with.
“Families, not the government, families should be responsible for their children’s religion,” she said.
“This bill,” she added, “doesn’t strengthen religious freedom. It threatens it.”
Thank you, Rep. Healy, we need a majority of legislators who think & act as you do. Unfortunately here in District 29 we have a state senator who wants the 10 Commandments taught in our public schools, yet he homeschools his own children.