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The state senator that pushed this is a complete whack job who is and has been about the culture wars for a long time. He says all the right buzzwords, plus name recognition from his dad being a long time official, he gets reflected every time. 
Source I get the pleasure of voting against him every time he is up for re-election.
They pass these useless bills to distract the public from the fact that their state’s education system is in shambles and they won’t do a damn thing to actually fix that. >

Just put the same words but in arabic, the rule will be gone soon. >

Someone tried that in Texas (I think?) and predictably all the Christian scumbags down there rejected just those signs (I believe one had In God We Trust written in Arabic and another one was done with rainbow letters). They’re not interested in displaying their love for God so much as they are in marginalizing other religions and the people that believe in them. >

I saw somewhere that the Christian Nationals and Conservative Muslims are teaming up to ban books. Maybe they’re cooking something up that’ll lead to a compromise >

The really ironic thing is that the Christian Nationalists were the ones screaming for years about how Muslims were trying to force sharia law on all of us here and yet it’s those same Nationalists that are trying to take rights away from women, including forcing them to cover up in the Missouri legislature, and everyone who isn’t a straight, white, male Christian. >

They realized they have much more in common than they thought. Full circle >


"The Taliban is going to ban abortion, vaccines, and gay marriage… maybe we were fighting on the wrong side for 20 years.”  (source) >

@baptistboomer just reads like one of those fake tweets from Cities Skyline >


@baptistboomer just reads like one of those fake tweets from Cities Skyline

Wow. Was not expecting to see a Cities: Skylines reference here. >

Yeah, the only thing West Virginia has in common with my cities in Cities: Skylines is the godawful infrastructure. And economy. And education. And… >

Public schools are NOT YOUR FUCKING CHURCHES >

Which is exactly why we're seeing the push to end public schooling and bring back private schools.. and child labor. >

I want to start a movement to ban private schools. Instead of the 1% donating to private schools that only benefit the privileged and elite, they can start an endowment for their local public school which will benefit the children of all classes. >

As someone who was forced through private catholic school despite years of pleading to be released from that shit hole, I could get behind this. I still get uncomfortable whenever I see a crucifix. >

Fucking A. Can’t you just imagine what Jesus would think about religions in his name using the torture device responsible for his death? >

a ruler? >

Now you're making me cross. >

Ranked #45 in education. Maybe they should put less trust in gods… >

How sad for those other five. >

Last I checked I teach in #48. We’re gutted by charter schools, religious homeschooling, poor funding, and shambling educational infrastructure. Also the general populace are proud to denounce education and don’t value its benefits. >


Also the general populace are proud to denounce education and don’t value its benefits.

"I got "street smarts"." >

"I graduated from the school of hard knocks" like okay buddy. 🙄🙄 >

The Satanic Temple has a program explicitly about religion and public schools. I hope they step in. >

With how, to say it politely, controversial the Supreme Court is right now, I hope this isn't something that gets pushed into their purview. I'm only a layman, so I apologize if I'm wrong, but this sounds like an issue with religious expression. Schools and religious expression have been hot button issues since the start of Covid. This has all the makings of a big dumpster fire. >

The specific phrase "In God We Trust" has already been in the Supreme Court in 2004. It is the official motto of the United States, and the argument is that it has lost all religious meaning. 
I'd disagree, especially with how it is being used here. Cases come up all the time in regards to it on money, public buildings, etc. The lower courts uphold it and SCOTUS doesn't hear the case. I'd assume that's what would happen if this was challenged. >

Yes, this is actually more up Freedom From Religion's alley. I think TST is really focussed on reproductive rights at the moment. >

saddest part of this is that somewhere right now there's people thinking that this just what our schools needed >

Sadly it's A LOT of people. This has been the role of religion in recent human history: a tool wielded by the rich to bamboozle the poor into further poverty and exploitation. If you can rile them up about the lack of prayer and religion in school, then no one is going to notice the budgets being drained in favour of tax cuts and privatization. >

Its indoctrination when a teacher mentions the FACT that people are gay. 
It’s not indoctrination when kids are forced to read about the angry imaginary sky god. 
Got it. >

They don’t believe in science but believes in a superpower man, the joke tells itself. >

and we should probably note, they only believe in dashing 6’1” white guy jesus… >

and apparently all knowing… Did he know his creations would turn out to be… like this? Doesn’t seem like a nice sky daddy to me. >

Blue states: buy books
Red states: buy "In God We Trust" signs. 
This is why conservatives are poor. >

I honestly think Conservatives would privatize high school if they could.   I mean, hell we've already had Trump University...  Trump High School can't be that far off >

They've been trying to do that for 20+ years >

I think the more insidious part is why they are doing it. >

To enrich their shitty friends who own education businesses and to intentionally dumb-down the population into joining the ranks of Republican voters. >

Fascism always comes wrapped in a flag and carrying a religious symbol. >

"But he saw too that in America the struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word 'Fascism' and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and Traditional Native American Liberty." >

Let the theocracy begin. Bunch of terrorists. >

I bet schools under Taliban rule have the same type of message too… >

Tape a penny to the wall >

It’s compliance and if people have a problem with it, oh well. >


It’s compliance

I think it would qualify as /r/MaliciousCompliance. 
Actually I'd be tempted to attach "This is your God" somewhere around it. >

"Forget it, Jake, it's West Virginia." >

Sigh…… >

So much for separation of church and state >

Sure seems like a cool idea but that's gone just like the state of west Virginia and their elected officials doing anything of actual importance. Kids can now spit look up and see in god we trust whilst looking up suffering through a terrible school lunch in a building where they don't equip educators with the right resources or try to do things that'll combat climate change or anything else >

And that's why they hate the constitution. >

"Surely this will stop inflation!"
Republicans are so goddamn out of touch with Americans lol. Keep pandering and virtue signaling to religious extremists, that worked out great for the midterms lmao >

Which god? Do I get to pick? If so I pick Ra, god of the sun. Dude has the head of a falcon. How cool is that? Ra was also mentioned in the oldest religious work in the world, written about some 2,600 years before they started worshipping some skinny dude nailed to a piece of wood. That's old school cool. Let's trust in that if we're going to bring gods into public schools. Kids might actually learn some history. >

Ah getting only the most important things in education fixed I see /s >

West Virginia is about to summon the Satanic Temple. >

queer satanic won't be far behind >

Meanwhile consumer debt is at an all-time high, healthcare is a giant scam and fucking eggs are $6 a dozen. Corporations are raking in record profits and this is what they're occupying their time with? Oh you're hungry and poor?.... all good my dude, just trust in God. >

“Feed your soul with the lord and if that’s not good enough, then your soul will burn in the lowest pits of hell for eternity 😡” >

More like in wal mart we trust. >

I don't trust god at all. >

The dude is a bit of a genocidal prick, TBH. >

The dude doesn’t exist, sorry that you too are familiar with the ugly story though. >

The slogan is an endorsement of a religion. It makes several positive claims. That there is a god, that there is one, and that the god is trustworthy. By capitalizing the "G", it narrows it down to very few monotheistic religions. Pretty much Abrahamic, and puts on public schools and money that we the people of the United States trust that God. We endorse God with our explicit trust, and promote that belief to our citizens. Anyone saying anything about tradition is not an honest actor. Anyone saying we are a Christian nation has not read the Treaty of Tripoli. >

Republicans are useless… >

Pretty useful for wealthy people and corporations. Literally the most powerful tools at their disposal >

Focused on the important issues I see. >

Maybe it's an offering to the coal god to bring their jobs back. >

Hail Satan. >

It is nothing less than grooming children for the sexual predators that lurk in the clergy.  Wait until DeSantis or Marjorie or Goetz or Tucker hears about this. >

So much for the establishment clause. >

We waved bye-bye to that in the 50s >

Sounds an awful lot like establishment of religion to me. >

This shit is unreal. I’m so tired of Christianity being shoved down everyone’s throat. Fucking over it. >

Education is not their desired outcome. >

Which god? >

So much for "separation of church and state" >

Someone who knows more about the law, please explain to me how this doesn't violate the establishment clause? >

You want Aronow v. United States, in response to "In God We Trust" being on money.
The majority wrote, "It is quite obvious that the national motto and the slogan on coinage and currency 'In God We Trust' has nothing whatsoever to do with the establishment of religion. Its use is of patriotic or ceremonial character and bears no true resemblance to a governmental sponsorship of a religious exercise..."
This was at the Appeals level and the case wasn't taken on by SCOTUS. There is a SCOTUS case about "under God" in the pledge of allegiance, Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, but it is kind of messy because it involved standing. >

Wait until they find out Jesus was Jewish and didn't even mean to start Christianity. >

WRONG!!!!  Jesus was a 'Murican and a Supply-Side Capitalist from Nazareth,Pennsylvania who was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. >

And he had white skin and blue eyes! /s >

Oh good, make it totally meaningless >

Did they fix that Texas loophole that would allow people to donate signs that say “in God we trust” in Arabic? >

line the bottom of garbage cans with these posters. >

Fuck all gods and church. The lord is a pedo >

The ACLU must be exhausted, jfc >

That’ll solve the problems. 🙄 >

Ah yes, priorities :)))))))) >

That is a unique interpretation of sepration of church and state. >

Whatever happened to not being a religious nation >

I don’t see what the big deal is. WV schools are so shitty and underfunded that none of the students will be able to read it anyway.
/s >

Groomers >

What a priority >

They should put up the label in Arabic. 
The parents will definitely force them to take it down. >

Allah be praised. >

God has no place within these walls (of education). Just like facts have no place within organized religion. >

Set up for a lawsuit >

It won’t happen. That phrase is displayed in public schools, public buildings and on energy vehicles all over Texas. No one cares. The separation of church and state is dead. 
Because 50% of the eligible voting population refuses to get involved to stop the conservative assault on constitutional law. >

I care deeply, as a matter of fact. That’s why joined TST and donate to the ACLU. >

That’s fine, but what I’m saying is the ACLU has given up on the phrase. They’ve also given up on teaching the Bible in school. If this weren’t the case then conservative states wouldn’t be doing it. The book bans, the restrictions on abortion etc. as long as the Supreme Court is conservative there’s nothing the aclu can do, or they would be doing it. 
You may not like the answer but that’s how it is. 
Most of your donation to the aclu goes to Administration and marketing, btw. I used to donate but realized that they spent more money on mailers begging me to give more than I had donated to them. >


Most of your donation to the aclu goes to Administration and marketing, btw.

What is this based on? Their required financial statements indicate that 87% of their income is spent on Program Services. Only 5% for "Management and General" and 8% for "Funding raising". >

Ironically, the national motto violates one of the 10 Commandments. The one in question says “thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain”.  When the national motto “in God we trust” was challenged in the Supreme Court, the Supremes ruled that as used in the motto “God” is a purely secular term of historic and traditional significance but devoid of any substance.  In other words, our national motto uses God’s name in vain.  But try to tell anybody that God’s name in the motto is meaningless and devoid of anything other than traditional significance, and you better check to see if they are concealed carry types first >

I am tired of funding these zealot moochers. >

Has no one read the 1st Ammendment? I mean, it's the first fucking ammendment. >

Christo-Fascist pigs need to be fought or they will be in charge for a very long time. >

Gilead