On Tuesday, Alabama residents voted on Constitutional Amendment 3 to amend the state constitution by requiring public schools to recite the Pledge of Allegiance daily and allow "student-led prayer." The measure officially passed on Wednesday, with 63 percent of the vote, according to The New York Times.
And it’s these types of people that hate Iran and communists…
Only a matter of time before the satanic temple prayer gets recited in a school legally in Alabama 💯🔥
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Most if not all public schools already recite the Pledge no matter how creepy it is, and student-led prayers are already legal. It’s teacher-led prayers that are banned.
If I understand correctly, there’s something in the new law that requires prayers to be in “Judeo-Christian tradition.” Whatever that means.
This makes the prayer time mandatory and students who choose to opt out can leave the room.
edit: There’s nothing apparent in the language of the amendment that would require any particular style of prayer. Satanists rejoice.
Sounds like a case for The Satanic Temple.
One day of having kids recite the seven tenets, and the Christians freak out and make all of it go away.
https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2026RS/HB511-enr.pdf doesn’t seem to limit who the prayer is to.
Good catch. I had seen an article that mentioned that, but it looks like bad journalism.
That’s going to be fun for the ACLU. Please donate to the ACLU people.
Good thing Satan is a Judeo-Christian figure. But Russell’s Teapot is out. R’Amen.
Do atheist student leaders have a non-prayer, secular invocation?
“Now now, Micheal. You led the prayer yesterday. Today, it’s Allister’s turn.”
My kid didn’t pledge allegiance to a rogue, authoritarian regime when they were in school, and we aren’t doing it now, as adults. This is so antichristian on every level. Lawsuits will be filed.
Also the evangelists support Israel so hard, but as Christians, could never claim right of return, as citizens of Israel. Only Jews and atheists are permitted to do that.
Also the evangelists support Israel so hard, but as Christians, could never claim right of return, as citizens of Israel. Only Jews and atheists are permitted to do that.
You miss the point of their support. They don’t give the slightest fuck about Jews as people or Israel as a country. They just know Revelations said that the Rapture can’t start until after the Jews return to the Holy Land, so they’ll do whatever it takes to fulfill that condition. It is entirely selfish.
Nah, I didn’t miss it, I simply think they believe nothing of the sort, but find it a convenient excuse to keep exploiting and abusing others. But they’re still not welcome to settle in Israel, greater or not.
I obviously cannot speak for all of them, only the ones I’m directly related to and everything I heard growing up in an evangelical church: most of them absolutely do believe it.
Very much so.
Do their actions align?
Beyond that, maybe some working class do believe; I posit politicians believe rhetoric is powerful.
I’d like to dedicate our next lesson to the dark lord, Asmodeus, may he reign forever in eternal hellfire
The Lust Demon is probably one of their gods, tbh.
Par for the course for Alabama, the state where the sentence “Hey Mom, if we get married, can we stay brother and sister?” is perfectly normal, and the state ranked 43rd out of 50 in public education.
I’m still proud of them for electing a trans woman to office. I feel like that’s huge for Alabama.
This stereotype is exactly as true as the idea that, in California, there are parents cutting penises off of their babies because they want to force them to be transgender. And it comes from the same place of tribalism and ignorance.
I’m not saying Alabama doesn’t have problems. Obviously it does. But this weird, “hurr-durr they marry their sisters,” thing is stupid and offensive.
Of course they don’t marry their siblings in Alabama, that’s ridiculous.
They wanna keep their options open for their cousins and uncles.
I don’t know that doubling down on your own ignorance and prejudices is exactly the snappy rebuttal you seem to think it is.
Maybe you could check whom you reply to.
I’m the OP and I didn’t bother replying to you because you don’t understand rhetorical exaggeration.
That’s a different dude, he was joking, and you don’t seem to understand humor either.
I did in fact see it was a different person I was responding to. I tried to make my language target neutral. I settled on “rebuttal,” as it felt like it restarted the attribution to responding to my post, not your OP, though I suppose using “double down” probably did the opposite. Regardless, I did recognize it was a different person.
But let’s be clear. Bald faced prejudice is not rhetorical exaggeration. It’s not rhetorical exaggeration to say “black people are usually criminals.” Are some black people criminals? Sure. But to pretend that it is therefore somehow intrinsic to that community isn’t innocent point making. It’s racism.
And sure, that guy was joking. But let’s say someone says something racist, I call out the racism, and then someone makes a racist joke in response. I don’t think it’s “not understanding humor,” to call it out when I’ve already established the problem is the racism.
Prejudice and tribalism isn’t a good thing. Even when it’s against people you don’t like. Perhaps especially then.
That means they climbed 7 spots in recent years. Which is, unbelievably, true. But mostly because the rest of the country has spiralling education.
The Pledge of Allegence was a scam to sell flags to schools that was picked up by McCarthyites to brainwash kids.
Isn’t the pledge of allegiance comes from an ad for a flag or something like this?
No, just regular nationalism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance
