The Ten Commandments Should Not Be in Schools

What Happened to Separation of Church and State?

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Louisana’s governor just signed a law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school in the state. While the world deals with senseless death in the Congo and Palestine, Trump’s rising power, and the impending Summer Olympic Games, Lousiana’s governor decides to merge church and state.

I’m a spiritual person. Religion, I feel, has caused more problems than solved them. But I also believe people should be allowed to worship as they please. Isn’t that why the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock? They came from England to escape religious persecution (among other things). When the Founding (Slaveholding) Fathers created the Constitution, there was a specific emphasis on separating church and state. Over the years, many states, cities, and towns have wavered on what that separation means.

In some schools, students are required to say the Pledge of Allegiance; in other schools, prayer is allowed, and some school districts don’t have any requirements (unless it’s a parochial school). In addition, there has been much pushback about religion since America is a land of many faiths. Shouldn’t every religion’s tenets be posted in classrooms to honor the diversity of the students?