Louisiana public school actively promotes Christianity

When I was in the third grade, and granted we are talking 1979, we had to learn and recite Psalm 23 for a grade. No one complained or sued the school.

 

So, how would we be governed? Does the Supreme Court just become an unelected, super legislature?

 

Well, Jefferson's idea (since we loooooove those Founding Fathers and all) was a Constitutional convention every 40 years.

 

So?

 

I wholeheartedly endorse this idea.

 

It's a better idea than pretending the Constitution says things it does not say, or pretending the things it does say no longer apply.

 

Even Scalia respects precedent.

Do you?

 

When my mom was in school, and granted, we are talking 1954 or so, the teacher slapped her hand because my mom had to take a shoe off for a bad itch and the teacher didn't like that she had her shoe off. My grandmother proceeded to go to my mom's school and told the teacher that if she ever put her hands on my mother again, that would be the last thing she ever did.

Today, of course, there would be multiple legal ramifications for both what the teacher did, and what my grandmother said she would do. So you see, the good old days weren't necessarily good.

 

You mean this as a jab, but it's true.

Constitutions *should* be written to reflect the time they are governing. Our deification of our constitution (and the fact that the modifying mechanism does not scale well to more states) forces us into a mishmash of odd interpretations and precedents in order to get what we need.

 

Did not mean it as a jab.

 

The problem comes when no one can agree on exactly what it is we need.

 

Or actually, they were, because we didn't have to sue someone every day. If there was a problem, it was taken care of, and that was the end of it.

And in my case, I was just relaying an anecdote related to the thread.

My county has 63,000 people in it. I would venture to guess - without the official numbers to back it up - that somewhere less than 1% identify themselves as not Christian. So, to quote the First Amendment, "Congress shall make no law ... prohibiting the free exercise thereof" if someone tries to prohibit what is the overwhelming and almost unanimous will of the populous, it creates a problem. Six or seven years ago, the ACLU showed up because one of our high schools was praying before football games. Never mind the prayer was non-specific "Heavenly Father, please protect the players on the field and the fans on the their way home" etc. (no mention of Jesus Christ, Jehovah, Muhammad, Buddha, Vishnu, Odin, Apollo, Zeus, or Ra - just asking whomever you believe the Grand Architect of the Universe to be to keep everyone safe), they thought some dirt worshiper's rights were being violated. The group quickly left because they were pretty quick to figure out they were barking up the wrong tree.