Louisiana public schools will display 'In God We Trust' beginning this school year
Source: ABC News
By BRENDAN RAND Aug 13, 2019, 3:02 PM ET
News headlines today: Aug. 13, 2019
Public school students in Louisiana will see the motto In God We Trust when they return to class this year.
A bill signed into law by Governor John Bel Edwards in May 2018 will require the states public schools to display the motto in each building it uses and in each school under its jurisdiction by the 2019-2020 school year.
The law, first introduced in March 2018 as Senate Bill 224 by Democratic State Senator Regina Ashford Barrow, said that the way the motto was displayed would be determined by each governing authority but needed to be at least a paper sign.
The law also included a requirement that students be educated about the U.S. flag and patriotic customs by fifth grade, as part of their social studies curriculum. Instruction about In God We Trust would be included with the patriotic customs.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/louisiana-public-schools-display-god-trust-beginning-school/story?id=64947756
Ohiogal
(32,045 posts)School shootings will disappear!
not fooled
(5,801 posts)Diminishing prospects for most students and a deliberately wrecked public education system, but as long as they are propagandized about the bronze age sky being, they have what they need for a good life.
Archae
(46,342 posts)While the mandatory teaching of "In God We Trust" will end up in the Supreme Court.
All the while, this new law does absolutely diddly squat.
Thunderbeast
(3,418 posts)Nothing like a little more JEEBUS if you don't choose to fund schools.
Yellow ribbons, thoughts and prayers, flag decals...way less work than addressing problems with actual solutions. Hope these dimwits feel better.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Not
Also creepy flag patriotic customs class is sketchy as heck
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)With Trump, it probably won't matter, but I thought they could lose school funding.
former9thward
(32,066 posts)I doubt it will matter much....
Duppers
(28,125 posts)This is clearly unconstitutional, as already been decided by the court.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,584 posts)janeb13 / Pixabay
JUNE 11, 2019 10:43:03 AM Keegan Boyle
The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to the motto In God We Trust being displayed on American currency.
The motto was called into question by Michael Newdow, who stated that the inclusion of the phrase violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The Establishment Clause states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.
Newdow also argued that the phrase violates the Fifth Amendments due process clause because it forces Atheists to utilize currency that includes a religious connotation.
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit dismissed Newdows case in 2018 because the phrase does not compel citizens to engage in religion. The Supreme Courts order allows this decision to stand.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Isnt this settled law?
former9thward
(32,066 posts)Not sure what you mean by "settled law".
melm00se
(4,994 posts)the Courts have ruled, repeatedly, that the phrase "In God We Trust" on money ins constitutional.
former9thward
(32,066 posts)What makes you think they would rule any different here? You see money on a daily basis. Much more prominent than a sign on a school.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)DaDeacon
(984 posts)SAD!
Grokenstein
(5,727 posts)it will be upgraded to "In God Emperor Trump We Trust." Schools will be instructed to insist it has always been that way.
It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often hear one hen remark to another, Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim, thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water tastes!...
― George Orwell, Animal Farm
truthisfreedom
(23,152 posts)The Liberal Lion
(1,414 posts)My god has a name, and it is Cthulhu!
If they are going to put "In God We Trust" on my shit (because the government's shit is the public's shit, and I am John Q. Public), then I want that god named! I demand it. And for shit that they give to me to hold and see I want that god named as CTHULHU! No Jah, No Jehovah, no Allah, no Elohim, no Yahweh, fucking CTHULHU bitches!
cp
(6,652 posts)In Vishnu we trust?
Hey Louisiana legislators, you're still governed by the First Amendment, too.
WinstonSmith4740
(3,056 posts)Church of Satan..."Hold my beer".
https://jezebel.com/oklahoma-removes-ten-commandments-on-capitol-grounds-w-1735155450
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Botany
(70,567 posts)As unAmerican as you can get. If you want to believe in some great creature that lives on the
clouds and you can never see, touch, hear, or smell such a creature fine go ahead and do that
and that is called faith but don't force others to believe what you do and act in such a way as to
make you and your cloud guy happy.
orangecrush
(19,611 posts)Wiil shut them down.
Donte today!
former9thward
(32,066 posts)orangecrush
(19,611 posts)Polybius
(15,467 posts)Or don't care. It's been there for what, 65 years or so?
former9thward
(32,066 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Or are you simply implying a cross-consistency of law you have not yet supported with any evidence?
Duppers
(28,125 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)Jean Sheperd's humor is greatly needed during these dark times.
llmart
(15,550 posts)and this is the sort of crap they spend their time and money on. You'd think they would get a clue, but then they don't need no ejukashun if they have their Jeebus.
Friend of mine moved to that state about two years ago. She's an atheist, extremely liberal and bright as all get out. She would always rail about Catholics and their brainwashing, but when she moved to Louisiana, she put her only child in a Catholic school. I was dumbfounded but then realized that she was doing what was best for her child, who is very bright like she is.
You couldn't pay me to live there.
Gumboot
(531 posts)... is a Democrat, yet he signed this garbage into law.
Seriously...
NewDayOranges
(692 posts)Children's test scores will shoot up as a result!
tanyev
(42,600 posts)Display the magic motto and every student behaves!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,113 posts)elias7
(4,026 posts)It drives me crazy that the term God is such a multiculturally dominant word, yet without any commonality of meaning. I dont see how people can meaningfully talk about god without relying on a common definition, yet it doesnt seem to me that any two people either within a single religious denomination or of differing religions start there.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)With his fingers crossed.
All the while winking to his disciples that he didn't mean a word of it.
Somehow, that's become the modern Christian mindset.