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BumRushDaShow

(172,297 posts)
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 02:13 PM Sep 2025

Trump vows to protect prayer in public schools with new Department of Education guidance

Source: USA Today

Updated Sept. 8, 2025, 12:33 p.m. ET


President Donald Trump announced upcoming guidance from the Department of Education protecting prayer in public schools during a speech at his Religious Liberty Commission’s Sept. 8 hearing. The hearing, held at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, marked the commission’s second public meeting and had a theme of “Religious Liberty in Public Education.”

Trump has long vowed to bring religion back to the nation, both on the campaign trail and so far during his second term. He walked out to the crowd at the Museum of the Bible shortly after 10:30 a.m., thanking the commission for doing an “amazing job.” He said his administration would “protect the Judeo-Christian values of our founding.” “To have a great nation, you have to have religion – I believe that so strongly,” Trump said. “There has to be something after we go through all of this, and that something is God.”

He went on to allege that students are “indoctrinated with antireligious propaganda” in public schools before announcing the new Department of Education guidance. It was not immediately clear what the guidance would entail.

Students have long had the right to pray in public schools as individuals.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/08/trump-prayer-public-schools-religious-liberty-commission-museum-bible/86039212007/

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Lovie777

(23,747 posts)
3. Coming from a political party that have.......................
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 02:16 PM
Sep 2025

broken all 7 of the deadly sins.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,982 posts)
4. Now TACO Don wants to turn the US into Saudi Arabia or Iran?
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 02:18 PM
Sep 2025

What denomination of Christianity, Donnie? Whose Bible did you have in mind?

Once again, TACO Don shoots off his mouth before his brain, or what's left of it, has a chance to think.

Johonny

(26,618 posts)
5. He will say whatever shit he thinks will get rubes
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 02:26 PM
Sep 2025

To buy more of his shitcoins and hats. He sees the fundamentalists for the suckers they are.

Torchlight

(7,066 posts)
6. The leverage the radical American clerics have is chilling
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 02:26 PM
Sep 2025

No one is prevented from prayer in school and by the same measure, no one should be forced, either. Required prayer is not protection, but coercion.

Granted, my own prayers in school usually took place seconds after an unannounced quiz was being handed out, but no one ever knew I engaged in it, let alone could prevent it.

The leverage the radical American clerics have over our culture is chilling, and that it's being done for power is actual apostasy.

Ilsa

(64,577 posts)
7. I bet Krasnov would crap his pants (again) if he was
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 02:37 PM
Sep 2025

asked to lead a public prayer without a script. I bet he can't say The Lord's Prayer without a cheat sheet. I bet he could only recite a child's bedtime prayer ("Now I lay me down to sleep...&quot or some version of the blessing of a meal.

usonian

(26,596 posts)
8. Look who's talking. Walking straight to hell.
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 02:38 PM
Sep 2025

Hasn't observed even ONE commandment his entire life.

He's the Antichrist. Period.

Who checks ALL the boxes ? (boxes are on order)




Ask Brother Paul.
https://antichrist45.com/ His web site.
https://www.youtube.com/@antichrist45 His YouTube channel
That's where I screensnapped the checklist.



He checks even more boxes.





From an earlier post:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20610303



moose65

(3,463 posts)
9. This is so ridiculous
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 02:38 PM
Sep 2025

Trump can't name a single Bible verse as his favorite. Any of us who knows ANY rightwing evangelical knows that they can rattle off Bible verses at the drop of a hat. Trump never says a word about his own personal religious journey, which proves that he doesn't have one - those folks are all too glad to tell you what Jesus did for them!

It absolutely boggles the mind. Trump is the most amoral, foul-mouthed, narcissistic asshole on this planet. How anyone can look at him and see a religious person? I will NEVER understand his so-called "appeal."

lastlib

(28,624 posts)
13. Not if it's someone named "tRump," convicted of 34 felonies......
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 05:21 PM
Sep 2025

I almost think THAT should be a mandatory school prayer.....

Karasu

(2,081 posts)
15. Here we are. The final stage in the devolution of Christianity in the US. It's all a fucking joke.
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 05:23 PM
Sep 2025

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