Boom. The hammer was dropped on Senator John “California” Carley’s Senate Bill 51 to insert biblical teachings into public schools by posting the 10 commandments in all classrooms and forcing them to add it to school instruction.
The debate was long, and at one point, proponents wavered as a friendly amendment was offered by Rep. Liz May to almost completely water the bill down, by removing the posters from swim class and welding, and being satisfied with curriculum insertion and the 10 commandments just being “prominently posted” somewhere in the school.
But then they called for a vote. And proponents were completely owned:
The vote was a hard NO on a count of 31 to 37, even after being voted down.
In looking at the bills, Senator Carley is starting to rack up some noticeable losses for his first year at bat. And this was a big one.
Mr. Carley, who is from California, should consider himself lucky the Wiccans now won’t be nailing their creeds to the trees around his school house.
No, but there sure are a lot of Pagans, Muslims, and other non-Christian’s engraved on the edifice of the Supreme Court. Maybe grow up and read some of the Founders thoughts on people like yourself.
How many attorneys are in this group? The only one I know of is Odenbach. Any attorney that voted for this and doesn’t understand the extremely non-Christian ramifications of this bill has no business representing anyone, including clients. They either don’t understand the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment and the establishment clause of the first amendment, or choose to blindly ignore them. Both of which are a concern.
Attorneys don’t care if there will be lawsuits. They don’t care that they will clearly lose those lawsuits. They get paid to defend them regardless.
Attorneys that were yes votes: John Hughes, Speaker Hansen, Soye.
Hughes gave an impasioned (and lengthy) Bible lesson. Worth a listen as to see the piety dripping out of evey pore in his body.
Before we go to mandating the Ten Commandments in public schools, ask around to see how many private (Chistian or Catholic) schools post the Ten Commandments anywhere in their schools. The answer is likely to be Zero or very close to it.
As a graduate of one South Dakota Catholic school system we did have the 10 commandments posted on the wall and neither does another K-6 Catholic school I have donated to for scholarships in another town.
Former Aberdeen Mayor Mike Levsen was spot on with this post in the South Dakota Standard. Wish he was still Mayor of A-Town!
https://www.sdstandardnow.com/home/politics-makes-strange-bedfellows-as-the-marriage-of-trump-and-the-christian-right-proves?rq=10%20commandments
We did NOT have the 10 commandments on our walls at any of the Catholic School System walls*
We did NOT have the 10 commandments on our walls at any of the Catholic School System *
Fitzgerald should have known better. The lawsuits would have been never ceasing.
All of the D3 and D1 House duds voted for this. D3 House Dud Schaefbauer was the only vote for Dylan Jordan’s prime sponsored bills in House State Affairs. Jordan is 0-6 now.
With half the effort these politicians devoted to covering the state with yard signs and billboards, they could do the same with the Ten Commandments and leave the schools out of it.
Pat is christian, and you’re an idiot. Nice deflection on the issue, but you got caught. Any other attempts to distract from the legislature’s blatantly unconstitutional attempt here will also lead to you being called an idiot.
You’re an idiot.
Sponsor of the bill: “The 10 commandments will be taught as a historical document, this will not be used to Proselytize the students.” Her table mate Rep. Goodwin: “ I prayed on this and God spoke to me and said if this bill brings just one person to Christ, I must vote for it.” Hmmmm
Am I the only one that notices that D1 and D# vote in lockstep. My guess is they all have to call Al first before they vote.
Give Rep. Heather Baxter some credit for bringing the bill too.
Postcard bill for sure.
Yep. I would say there’g going to be a lot of postcard bills this next election.
I want the 10 Commandments printed on the back of my driver’s license.
They should try that next.
Maybe on our license plates – around the outside edge.
Would they help under the hood of my vehicle since it has having starting and reliability issues?