DON’T POST THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Inage courtesy of The Forward DON’T POST THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS It’s bad for everybody. All wise traditions have the same prohibitions on murder, theft, lying, adultery. (If it’s too difficult to talk about gender or sexual orientation, how the hell can the teachers explain adultery?) Not all wise traditions hold that […]
NO MORE PROSELYTIZING IN SCHOOLS!
The other day I posted about a teacher in Tennesee who was proselytizing in a class on the Christian Bible, going so far as to tell students to “torture” Jewish people by writing and saying the name of G-d outside of prayer, because this is considered a horrific sign of disrespect to religious Jews. Below […]
MAKING JEWISH STUDENTS UNCOMFORTABLE IS OKAY IN TENNESSEE
Yahoo News ran an article about a school board in Tennessee that offers a course teaching “the Bible,” which is of course a Christian version favored by fundamentalists and Evangelicals. If anyone doubts the real intent is to force this religious dogma down everyone’s throats, read what the teacher recommends students do when they encounter […]