Religion hitting schools
The separation of church and state is going
to new extremes in a Riverside County school district.
The Val Verde Unified School District has
allowed the Ten Commandments to be posted in district offices.
But the Southern California American Civil
Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit, charging a breach of church and
state.
Yeah, maybe posting the Ten Commandments
in the district office does violate the separation law, but those commandments
have become the basis of our nation's laws.
Almost all of the commandments are now
either part of statutory or common law.
Murder, stealing, lying, and adultery are
all laws of either the state or the country.
If a person lies in court, he can be convicted
of perjury.
The unjustified killing of a person is
punishable by life in prison or even by death.
A married couple may be granted a divorce
if one partner cheats on the other.
Throughout the years, courts have used
the Ten Commandments to provide law.
If that is not a violation of church and
state, then what is?
People need to worry more about what they
teach their children than what they read on the wall of the school district
office.
The idea is to get people to think about
their actions, not promote a specific religion.
If that were the intent, they would hang
a crucifix instead of the Ten Commandments. |
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