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Every one of you should go put your location in your profiles, so we know where you are.
I live in West Virginia. That's in the Bible Belt. People assume you're a Christian. When you move into a neighborhood, they ask which church you go to. The assumption is that you are Christian and attend church. Not only the Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses knock on doors around here. We've had people from mainstream denominations (Baptist if I remember correctly) and Seventh Day Adventists come knocking on our door wanting to tell us the "Good News." The Governor just signed a bill into law Friday that allows liquor sales on Sunday. Sales of liquor on Sundays have been illegal since the Blue Laws were passed after the repeal of Prohibition. Liquor sales may not begin until 1:00 PM on Sundays even though they are permitted 24 hours every other day.
I spend a good bit of time in New England too. It is quite unusual for anybody to even mention religion there. It happens, but is not common. It simply doesn't occur to people to ask about your religion. That is considered a private matter.
"alcohol" is one reason I am for keeping religion around. people are worried about religion. Alcohol is something real and its is causing far more harm than good. although i could say it helped me meet my wife.
If we were in the middle east, we be oppressed. If we were if russia, we be oppressed.
It's a never-ending battle, in Texas and elsewhere, to stop the gutting of biology in high schools in favor of creationism - or, intelligent design, which is merely creationism under the pretense of not really being religious (ie, Christian) in basis.
In Texas, as in numerous other states, gays can only get married because of a long battle fought to allow it over objections that all boiled down to "But, the Bible says that's wrong!", and were it not for the United States Supreme Court, Texas would start that oppression all over again (see also: Lawrence v. Texas and the repeal of statutes criminalizing sex between consenting adults of the same sex).
Texas is also the poster child for abstinence-only education, which - not surprisingly to anyone, really - makes it the poster child for teen birth rates and STD infections rates as well.
Frankly, I don't feel oppressed by Christianity. But I am well aware that the restraint on that oppression is due to a secularized society that prevents a small but energetic that would enthusiastically oppress if only given the chance, and that oppression aside, in myriad ways (see above) that minority nibbles around the edges to cause problems wherever they can.
“What happens in Texas doesn’t stay in Texas when it comes to textbooks”
No matter where you live, if your children go to public schools, the textbooks they use were very possibly written under Texas influence. If they graduated with a reflexive suspicion of the concept of separation of church and state and an unexpected interest in the contributions of the National Rifle Association to American history, you know who to blame.
When it comes to meddling with school textbooks, Texas is both similar to other states and totally different. It’s hardly the only one that likes to fiddle around with the material its kids study in class. The difference is due to size—4.8 million textbook-reading schoolchildren as of 2011—and the peculiarities of its system of government, in which the State Board of Education is selected in elections that are practically devoid of voters, and wealthy donors can chip in unlimited amounts of money to help their favorites win.
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It's a never-ending battle, in Texas and elsewhere, to stop the gutting of biology in high schools in favor of creationism - or, intelligent design, which is merely creationism under the pretense of not really being religious (ie, Christian) in basis.
In Texas, as in numerous other states, gays can only get married because of a long battle fought to allow it over objections that all boiled down to "But, the Bible says that's wrong!", and were it not for the United States Supreme Court, Texas would start that oppression all over again (see also: Lawrence v. Texas and the repeal of statutes criminalizing sex between consenting adults of the same sex).
Texas is also the poster child for abstinence-only education, which - not surprisingly to anyone, really - makes it the poster child for teen birth rates and STD infections rates as well.
Frankly, I don't feel oppressed by Christianity. But I am well aware that the restraint on that oppression is due to a secularized society that prevents a small but energetic that would enthusiastically oppress if only given the chance, and that oppression aside, in myriad ways (see above) that minority nibbles around the edges to cause problems wherever they can.
I disagree with much of your post, mainly because my experience here. Texas is pushing the envelope on sex education, notably, AISD is starting a curriculum for 6, 7 and 8 graders to do a really deep dive in to biological realities of sexual behavior, as well as gender identification education. A few are rending their hair and clothing, but the district is pressing on.
Yes, in the 1990s Texas led the nation in teen births, NOT because of lack of birth control education, but because it was ACCEPTABLE for girls to get pregnant. God that was a difficult time. Never in the history of time have young girls purposely become pregnant. It had always been something to fear and avoid, but these girls were getting pregnant on PURPOSE because it was cool. Gadzooks. I was a foot soldier in the battle to stop that nonsense through educating girls that although babies are sure cute, NO. Not until you're an adult. And it took some educating the boys, too, who thought they were really masculine if they could knock up a 14 year old classmate.
Every one of you should go put your location in your profiles, so we know where you are.
This may be a bad idea if people want to keep their real life identity a secret, as it can be used to find out who people really are. I have accidentally done this for one city-data user without trying.
I live in Broward County in Southeast Florida. After the Parkland shooting many have called for the removal of the superintendent of Broward schools. Just last week, there was a townhall meeting regarding school safety that was open to all. Bus loads of ministers and church goers arrived to support the superintendent. Their speeches were religious in nature and did not really address the issue of safety or lack of it in the public schools.
I live in Broward County in Southeast Florida. After the Parkland shooting many have called for the removal of the superintendent of Broward schools. Just last week, there was a townhall meeting regarding school safety that was open to all. Bus loads of ministers and church goers arrived to support the superintendent. Their speeches were religious in nature and did not really address the issue of safety or lack of it in the public schools.
yeah, they divert from addressing the belief being forced on us that mentally ill children have the right to sit in on regular ed classrooms, no matter how they pull down the rest of class.
yeah, they divert from addressing the belief being forced on us that mentally ill children have the right to sit in on regular ed classrooms, no matter how they pull down the rest of class.
That is a different topic altogether and I do believe that with proper help, most of those children can sit in regular ed classrooms. That is exactly what the Parkland parents are upset about, that help wasn't provided or that school administrators were acting like law enforcement.
I was addressing that Christians are not exactly low key by wearing shirts with their church's logo. The event was more political in nature than religious, yet, religion was brought in.
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