What is it About These Dumb*#@ Oklahomans Don't Get About Separation of Church and State?

Oklahoma has to be the armpit of the country. Seriously!? The Ten Commandments in a public school? We have private schools of superstitious idiots to attend. Why do my tax dollar have to support these nonsense when it is clearly forbidden?


Uproar In Muldrow, Oklahoma, After School Is Sued For Having Ten Commandments In Classrooms
The Huffington Post | By Hunter Stuart
Posted: 05/12/2013 1:55 pm EDT


The little town of Muldrow, Okla., is in turmoil after a national nonprofit organization reportedly threatened a lawsuit if postings of the Ten Commandments aren't removed from the walls of a public high school.

A letter from the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FRFF) was sent to school officials after an anonymous student contacted the organization about the postings of the Ten Commandments at his high school, according to multiple reports.

In the letter, the nonprofit group, which advocates for the separation of church and state, asked the school to pull the postings down. The foundation indicated that a lawsuit would result if the school refused, the Sequoyah County Times reported Friday.

Ever since the letter arrived, the community has been up in arms.

Multiple petitions have been signed by hundreds of people, pray-ins have been held at the school, pro-Christian messages lit up Twitter with the hashtag #FightForFaith, and church officials and politicians have railed against the request to remove the religious postings.

"A nation that refuses to allow educators to teach children right from wrong will become a corrupt nation, where sin prevails, evil abounds, and everyone does as they please," said Republican state Rep. John Bennett, according to the Sequoyah County Times.

"It's Christianity under attack," Muldrow First Baptist Church Pastor John Moore inveighed. "It was promised in the scripture [that this would happen].


A local church even bought hundreds of T-shirts, printed with the Ten Commandments, and offered them for free to students to wear to school.

The school, for its part, reportedly said students who wore the shirts would be forced to turn them inside out, the Sequoyah County Times reported.

Meanwhile, the anonymous student who first contacted the FRFF took to Reddit to lament that his classmates have "started to figure out" it was he who sent the letter.

"All I have received [since then] were dirty looks and an argument with a rather large linebacker," he wrote. "I am not upset at that because I expected that, what I am upset about is the fact that my little sister has been yelled at by a school bus full of brainwashed children."

Yet in spite of the backlash, it appears the Ten Commandments will probably have to come down.

Muldrow school administrators who consulted legal experts said that a 1980 court ruling meant the plaques would likely have to be removed, according to the Southwest Times Record.

In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Kentucky statute that had mandated every public school classroom have the Ten Commandments posted on its walls. The ruling has been interpreted to mean public schools cannot have the Ten Commandments on display year-round.

The First Amendment states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion," a statement that has been interpreted through the years to prohibit governmental preference of one religion over another.

The Muldrow School Board is scheduled to meet Monday evening to discuss the matter of whether or not to remove the Ten Commandments from school walls, according to the Southwest Times Record.

 

I think you should stop giving any money to Muldrow if that's how you feel.

 

That and the SCOTUS!

 

Oklahoma is one those countless red states that takes more from the federal government than it pays in. Bunch of holy rolling hicks glued to God and guns if you ask me.

Oklahoma
Federal spending received for every tax dollar paid: $1.18
Rank: 21
Rank in 2005: 15
Federal spending received for every tax dollar paid per capita: $1.64

Rankings: 1 = highest. 2010 rankings include District of Colombia.

 

And just what does this have to do with the ten commandments? Or is this just smear the right day in the Teddy household?

 

First he praises socialism. Then he condemns it. Who knows what's going on in his brain, but the synapses are obviously misfiring (can I use the term "misfire" or is that too non-pc for the Obamunists to handle?). Anyway. What's the price of tea in China today?

 

It is whatever talking point the left has to offer. He does not think for himself much.

 

I love how he calls Oklahomans "Dumb*#$, but the grammar he used in the title of this thread is really Dumb*#$

 

"Good Christians" I reckon.

Seriously though this could happen anywhere and I really wonder just how many of those students ever even took the time to read them.

I figure by high school someone raised Christian should know the Ten Commandments by heart.

 

That's Oklahoma-ese. How else are they going to understand this thread?