and the Constitution itself with an executive order? He can’t, and fuck him.

Trump could care less but enjoys a nothing battle as a diversion.... rallies his minions...

No such thing as constitutional prayer. Except the silent type uttered to oneself.

Teachers and other authority figures can't force or influence kids to pray. There are student led prayer clubs in public schools all across the country, always have been. As long as its done during lunch or recess hours and is 100% voluntary, its totally legal. This lie that prayer was ever "banned" from schools is bullshit the right has been pushing for ages and it should be pushed back on every single time it comes up.

on their own time and without the participation of adult staff, and if all such gatherings are permitted regardless of the religion, but this has been true for years. Prayers in a public school that are organized or sanctioned by the school itself or its staff are unconstitutional.

...where students can do that.

This will principally benefit Muslim students.

Der Trumpenfuhrer thinks he is the SC.

Constitution?

while on his golden throne for his morning constitution

✌🏼

I'm not religious anymore but I was during my high school years and we had a student ran prayer club that people could attend during lunch a few times a week. Its a lie that prayer was ever banned from schools. The only thing that changed us that adults working as a teacher or whatever can't force or influence any religious activity.

Suck it up! Anything religious they ALL just chew on!!

See it so fucking CLEAR what a phony this asshole is!

Bet he's never read one word of the bible.

Vocational curiosity and all.

I'm embarrassed for our country that we have so many gullible people who fall for his crapola.

Methinks his throne is a might rickety.

Matt Gaetz would have voted in favor of the military powers bill, if his constituents were not in support of it. His district(mine) is 70 percent military, Trump is losing their support.

It was voluntary, entirely non-sectarian, and the coach absented himself from the locker room while we prayed.

No one ever said we couldn't

I've pushed back on the right-wing screeching about 'takin' Jesus outta the schools!..." ever since...

who are Independents in the suburbs. On a recent poll this group said 56% would definitely NOT vote for him.

Hallowed be thy name...

and every morning we had to recite the Pledge of Allegiance (I recall when the words "under God" was added), sing "America" (My country 'tis of thee) and recite the Lord's Prayer. I don't know why it wasn't an issue then. We had Jewish students, also.

Same as you describe: Pledge, then "America", then Lord's Prayer.

All the Jewish kids sat down after "America", then all the Catholic kids sat down after "..and deliver us from evil", then the Protestant kids were left standing for "For thine is the kingdom (etc)..."

I thought it was completely ridiculous, having moved from Connecticut where prayer was reserved for church.

at least in the metropolitan area. Plus, at that time Connecticut had Blue Laws that prohibited birth control, though no one paid any attention to the laws.

No prayer.

And my Mom went and got The Pill as soon as we moved to NYC.

You can find it in Two Corinthians.

Unfortunately, evangelicals fall for anything pandering to Christianity as long as it’s a Republican doing it.

We don't know why he has them but they are in his back pocket. ✅ expand elsewhere.
I'll take a guess at this - the campaign is at his whim and will for those who adore him. Or maybe it trying to create momentum or expanding size.

at the Bowling Green massacre.

dedicated to the elemental purity of Zoroastrianism next to a statue of Baphomet should be fine as well.

Pray for the Constitution?

So which will be the official gov't approved Lord's Prayer?

The Catholic or Protestant version?

Many Ps/Cs consider the other to be false Christians.

Does anyone know what that is?

but it is newspeak. Notice the contradiction or inference there? That's a way to try to frame the issue of prayer in school.

One has a constitutional right to practice one's faith if does no harm to others. That's where the line is and should stay. Using the word constitutional with prayer is a crafty way to push this idea as a "right" to pray in school.

That needs to be pointed it, if that's the case. This is Ministry of Truth material.

Putting that little new-speak Orwellian twist on it.

As dumb as the Republican base is, the people who are subjecting us to this sophisticated psyops effort, and others like it, are pretty smart. Evil. But smart.

And it is in the playbook. We have seen it before.

Maybe shrewd is a better word because the smart part seems to be limited to dastardly manipulations with the aim to control and exploit people. Otherwise, they are rather unintelligent when it comes to the policies they try to promote and that illustrates just how obsolete and irrelevant the Republicans have become.

Their back tires are stuck in the dark mud of the past and they just keep stepping on the gas and spinning their wheels in a panicked desperation, flinging mud on everyone. They just don't even seem to fit as a proper opposition party anymore and I think they know that. Even the demographics are against them as far as the future goes and, like dinosaurs, perhaps they will dig their way into extinction.

Prayer can be performed before and after school, at home, in church and in one's mind at anytime.

I see no other purpose for prayer in school other than to indoctrinate children, (peer pressure) or blur the lines between church and state. I see this country as fundamentally pluralistic and based on the common will for the common good in a secular fashion.

A school is not a church, temple, etc. I am not anti-religious by the way. I have respect for people's beliefs and faith.

Because you are a good person, unlike some.

the Indiana law that mandates In God We Trust signs hung in every school classroom

and expanding taxpayer funded school vouchers so your kid can go to religion school on the taxpayer dime,

I’m getting SICK OF THIS SHIT!

Jesus tells us to pray in silence in a closet and not in public.

I'm sure they have a loop hole or two.

Thanks.

I always said that as long as there are pop-quizzes, there will always be prayer in school.

there is already prayer in school. I see it before every one of my tests

Butt kissing for votes, also, chumming the water to pick a two-way fight.

I pay for a public school not a religious school.

fuck you dotard

Baphomet?

FSM?

If challenged to do so. The irony

This is pandering. Nothing else

He has none.

Then when the SC knock it down, he’ll rail against the ‘godless’ justices and demand they be replaced with real Christian justices.

It’s just red meat for his evangelical supporters in the run up to the election. And the dumb bastards will love it.