You realize that the states are subject to the Constitution?You realize that its a state making the law and not the Feds?
You realize that its a state making the law and not the Feds?
You think states are able to just ignore the Constitution?
You are wrong. It's that simple.The feds were not granted the power to protect individuals from unwise or unjust state laws. Your constitution was setup to limit your federal governments rights. The supreme court is there to overturn unconstitutional federal laws. It wasn't design to strike dpwn state laws that is why Texas can make Dildo's illegal if they want to.
Amendment XIV
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
You are wrong. It's that simple.
So an atheist is unable to recite the words: "So help me God"?
The United States, our Declaration, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, every fiber of our ourselves was founded under natural law. That no government can or will take away our god given rights. That human rights need to stand above governments, as they come from god.
That pledge and its end are not unique, nor a mistake. Its the traditional affirmation of our Judeo-Christian heritage, the basis for our laws.
Atheists who have a problem with this saying, are thereby contesting natural law. Which, as I hope I've explained, is a very... interesting... stance to take.
Yes God is so important. That's why under God has been in the pledge for about 60 years! And on coins for 150 and bills for 60 years. All since the start of this nation... Oh wait.
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No High School student will reach real truth via an oath that is forced. Education, real education, only that education that awakens the human heart will do any good...
Yes God is so important. That's why under God has been in the pledge for about 60 years! And on coins for 150 and bills for 60 years. All since the start of this nation... Oh wait.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
And yet the founders chose to leave all mention of natural law and god(s) out of the Constitution. Given their interest in these matters it would be hard to argue that this was anything but an intentional omission.I suggest you learn what the founders thought of natural law, what it meant to them, and the right of Americans to kill the British for our liberty.
Here's a taste:
And yet the founders chose to leave all mention of natural law and god(s) out of the Constitution. Given their interest in these matters it would be hard to argue that this was anything but an intentional omission.
You're so fucking wrong, I hope to GOD (yeah I went there) that you're not a high school graduate yourself. If you are, I weep for whatever generation you belong to.The feds were not granted the power to protect individuals from unwise or unjust state laws. Your constitution was setup to limit your federal governments rights. The supreme court is there to overturn unconstitutional federal laws. It wasn't design to strike dpwn state laws that is why Texas can make Dildo's illegal if they want to.
Just lie it shouldn't be too much of a stretch for atheists who don't believe in afterlife punishment.
It seems the issue is absence of a religious affiliation....
IF the believers in Xenu or Smith, along with the Christian and Jew and Muslim and Hindu and all the rest can call their belief system appropriate for graduation because they have either a god or some such advantage why can't the atheist...
Call it "A Theist" where their god instructs his flock to reject him via intuitive implantation of the message and the sure knowledge that he will return and align the stars to spell "I'm Back".... in Attica Greek.
The advantage of 'A Theist' is that there exists NO evidence of his existence so this belief IS based on the evidence... While all the rest require some faith in a reality based on evidence.
No evidence? Did all of the universe come from nowhere?
Why should we believe that the universe came from somewhere? Where would that place be?No evidence? Did all of the universe come from nowhere?
Its a basically empty phrase(certainly for Atheists) commonly tacked on to oaths.
EDIT: Would you feel better if atheists could instead say "So help me invisibly sky fairy"?
Students should be supporting the Constitution, If they dont like it then maybe they should go somewhere else. If we followed the Constitution we would be much better off
Nothing says I take this obligation freely quite like a state law that withholds your diploma unless you swear an oath.
Students should be supporting the Constitution, If they dont like it then maybe they should go somewhere else. If we followed the Constitution we would be much better off