On Tuesday, Alabama residents voted on Constitutional Amendment 3 to amend the state constitution by requiring public schools to recite the Pledge of Allegiance daily and allow "student-led prayer." The measure officially passed on Wednesday, with 63 percent of the vote, according to The New York Times.
Why not pledge allegiance to the Constitution instead?
Unconstitutional
Looks like it’s time to start up some After School Satan Clubs!
And it’s these types of people that hate Iran and communists…
The Pledge of Allegence was a scam to sell flags to schools that was picked up by McCarthyites to brainwash kids.
Only a matter of time before the satanic temple prayer gets recited in a school legally in Alabama 💯🔥
Looks like it’s time to start up some After School Satan Clubs!
Isn’t the pledge of allegiance comes from an ad for a flag or something like this?
Most if not all public schools already recite the Pledge no matter how creepy it is, and student-led prayers are already legal. It’s teacher-led prayers that are banned.
If I understand correctly, there’s something in the new law that requires prayers to be in “Judeo-Christian tradition.” Whatever that means.
This makes the prayer time mandatory and students who choose to opt out can leave the room.
Unconstitutional
Sounds like a case for The Satanic Temple.
One day of having kids recite the seven tenets, and the Christians freak out and make all of it go away.
https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2026RS/HB511-enr.pdf doesn’t seem to limit who the prayer is to.
Good catch. I had seen an article that mentioned that, but it looks like bad journalism.
That’s going to be fun for the ACLU. Please donate to the ACLU people.
Good thing Satan is a Judeo-Christian figure. But Russell’s Teapot is out. R’Amen.
Par for the course for Alabama, the state where the sentence “Hey Mom, if we get married, can we stay brother and sister?” is perfectly normal.
I’m still proud of them for electing a trans woman to office. I feel like that’s huge for Alabama.
That means they climbed 7 spots in recent years. Which is, unbelievably, true. But mostly because the rest of the country has spiralling education.
This stereotype is exactly as true as the idea that, in California, there are parents cutting penises off of their babies because they want to force them to be transgender. And it comes from the same place of tribalism and ignorance.
I’m not saying Alabama doesn’t have problems. Obviously it does. But this weird, “hurr-durr they marry their sisters,” thing is stupid and offensive.
I was about to say incest is way more common in the states but then I remembered it’s generally acceptable here to practice infant genital mutilation, though not for gender related reasons. Circumcision is fucked up.
Of course they don’t marry their siblings in Alabama, that’s ridiculous.
They wanna keep their options open for their cousins and uncles.
I don’t know that doubling down on your own ignorance and prejudices is exactly the snappy rebuttal you seem to think it is.
Maybe you could check whom you reply to.
I’m the OP and I didn’t bother replying to you because you don’t understand rhetorical exaggeration.
That’s a different dude, he was joking, and you don’t seem to understand humor either.
Do atheist student leaders have a non-prayer, secular invocation?
I’d like to dedicate our next lesson to the dark lord, Asmodeus, may he reign forever in eternal hellfire
My kid didn’t pledge allegiance to a rogue, authoritarian regime when they were in school, and we aren’t doing it now, as adults. This is so antichristian on every level. Lawsuits will be filed.
Also the evangelists support Israel so hard, but as Christians, could never claim right of return, as citizens of Israel. Only Jews and atheists are permitted to do that.
Also the evangelists support Israel so hard, but as Christians, could never claim right of return, as citizens of Israel. Only Jews and atheists are permitted to do that.
You miss the point of their support. They don’t give the slightest fuck about Jews as people or Israel as a country. They just know Revelations said that the Rapture can’t start until after the Jews return to the Holy Land, so they’ll do whatever it takes to fulfill that condition. It is entirely selfish.
Nah, I didn’t miss it, I simply think they believe nothing of the sort, but find it a convenient excuse to keep exploiting and abusing others. But they’re still not welcome to settle in Israel, greater or not.
I obviously cannot speak for all of them, only the ones I’m directly related to and everything I heard growing up in an evangelical church: most of them absolutely do believe it.
Very much so.
Do their actions align?
Beyond that, maybe some working class do believe; I posit politicians believe rhetoric is powerful.
You can’t expect the beliefs and actions of stupid people to align. You’ll just get frustrated.
Actions speak louder than words is my point.
“Now now, Micheal. You led the prayer yesterday. Today, it’s Allister’s turn.”
