Conservatives want to 'blow up' the separation of church & state - Velshi - MSNBC
Oklahoma School Superintendent Ryan Walters announced the newly formed “Office of Religious Liberty and Patriotism.” It follows his agency’s purchase of more than 500 Trump-edition Bibles for use in Advanced Placement Government courses.
The move is part of a broader campaign by conservatives to infuse Christian nationalism into public schools, in violation of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause. Conservative Christian groups like the Alliance for Defending Freedom– which helped overturn Roe V. Wade – are behind several cases involving the role of religion in schools.
Christian nationalists under a second Trump term want “to blow up the separation of church and state,” says Professor Melissa Murray– and all of these cases are “headed to the Supreme Court.” - Aired on 11/23/2024.
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When I was in the very early grades, we said "the school prayer" every day along with the Pledge. All I remember was the end, "our parents, our teachers and our country." I remember it being all that religious. But then, when I was still in elementary school, "the school prayer" was replaced by "a moment of silence," when we kids we told we could pray if we wanted. Then that disappeared and nobody missed it, it was confusing.
So now they're bringing actual religion into public school classrooms?! I'm guessing that some legislation was enacted when I was in elementary school that considered the wish for "our parents, our teachers and our country" crossed the line between church and state, so now they're bringing in actual Bibles?! Where's the legislation now?!
If parents wanted religion in the classroom, they can send their kids to a religious or parochial school. We had required religion classes and daily chapel at my boarding school, but parents knew what they were getting into by sending their kids there. And it's not like TFG is in the least religious, his version of the Bible is just one more grifting money-making scheme for him. Joe Biden is Catholic, but we rarely hear about it, it's personal, as it should be. 
