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'Incites hostility': Republicans pass bill to require Ten Commandments in Montana schools (www.alternet.org)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It'll probably get to stay this time

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you post the Ten Commandments in a classroom, students will read the rule against committing adultery, and Sen. Cora Neumann had a question about that situation.

The Montana Legislature already has told schools to notify parents about anything related to sex — even teaching Romeo and Juliet — so parents can have their children “opt out” of the lesson in question.

Given that consideration, Neumann wondered how teachers would handle the situation with the Ten Commandments — from a practical standpoint.

“This is actually going against our own Legislature’s ruling of the last session of exposing children to explicit sexual references,” said Neumann, D-Bozeman.

I would love to see a court square the circle on how bringing up adultery has nothing to do with sex.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Abrahamic hypocrisy on being simultaneously obsessed with and disgusted by sex.