Louisiana public school actively promotes Christianity

I wouldn't disagree with this. Members of elected bodies are old enough to have made up their minds about religion and unlikely to be swayed by prayers. To me, though, public schools are quite a different matter. To have teachers leading prayers smacks of religious indoctrination.

 

Just give a preacher doing the praying a big wad of cash and an itchy hand and those lawmakers can be swayed...he's no different than a lobbyist.

 

Yeah, but they're swayed by the cash. The prayer is of little consequence.

 

You said they couldn't be swayed...being old and stuck in their ways. That's either bigoted against old folk or respectful of them for being steadfast in their ideals or maybe just unable to change because they're old, but I'm saying they can be swayed, period.

 

Well, that just about covers my ex-wife both ways.

 

They were a little busy trying to get certain dark-skinned people out of slavery, trying to let Americans the right to vote even if they had a vagina, trying to prevent businesses from allowing little kids to have their arms cut off by their machinery, trying to stop businesses from letting employees die in factories, trying to prevent restaurants from serving food with rats in them and trying to preserve the right to drink alcohol.

The liberals of that era were just a little busy to worry about courthouse salutes.

 

The anti-slavery folks were largely also against alcohol.

And, it was religious folks who were at the forefront of both movements. It's silly to try to define them by the current definitions of liberal or conservative.

 

What about breasts? Can we covet those, or, at least, you know, kind of ogle?

 

Hmmm, where's that bag of troll feed?

Guess I should have led with the part about indoctrination. You want to argue semantics? Fine. I'm not the one who used absolute language here. You are. I didn't say "couldn't be", I said "less likely to be", precisely because I know people of all ages can be swayed.

 

Another anti-Christian thread? Started by Dick Whitman? Who would have ever guessed? :

 

Not God.

 

What makes this thread anti-Christian? All I see is yet another discussion about separation of church and state.