Does anyone know where to start to get 10 commandments back in our local schools. I feel everyone would benefit from this? Just my opinion. We need to bring God back into our country.

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I agree that we need God more prevalent in our country, but that needs to start at home, not at a public school. I am a very strong Christian, but I also want my rights as a Christian to stay intact. The separation of church and state was created to protect our religious rights to worship as we please and believe as we want to without the government telling us we can't, not the other way around.

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Good question. In my entirely non-researched and somewhat pessimistic opinion, I would say it takes someone willing to just go for broke, post the Commandments, get disciplined or even fired, and embrace the long and expensive court battle. On the positive side, there are legal organizations like the Alliance Defending Freedom who fought for Tanner Cross in Loudoun County Public Schools. They might possibly be willing to take on the fight.

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In my locker? Is that my desk? My trinket? Personal space

This battle has been fought. Unless you are willing to post and acknowledge other sets of religious pronouncements in a PUBLIC school, you are violating the 1st amendment. Come on already with that stuff. You have no right to proselytize in a public school for good reason. Keep in in your own houses and places of worship. This protects YOUR right to worship as you wish and the rights any person or student who does not wish to follow the teachings of your religion. Why is that so hard to understand and accept. No one is stopping you from your choices by protecting the rights of others.

I am a Muslim and I promise if I started praying in Arabic the teachers on this bowl would have a fit and accuse me of indoctrination. It seems like to a lot of people, Christianity is the only religion that deserves recognition.

That goes against the constitution

I am a Muslim and I had an honest question since you want God back in schools. Are you ok if people pray to Allah (Allah is the same God your believe in) and read prayers from the Quran or do you think it only applies to Christians and the Bible?

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Thank you for your question.
I would pose the same idea in regards to a statement I made in an earlier thread regarding Christian values in U.S. Public education:
While I am a Christian myself, I do not pretend that my country is, and our public education system is a product of that.
Take a look at the Ten Commandments you propose to post. We fail to uphold all of them (as a nation) every day. I would argue that every person fails at all or most, regularly. And many Americans believe that the statements themselves (even removed from the context of Scripture) are arbitrary at best.
Do I believe people would benefit from these? Of course I do. But I also believe there is a reason the Lord chose to call them "commandments" and not "suggestions." 😉 Commandments for whom?
I can't expect this set of standards to mean anything to a person who does not hold to the Bible as absolute truth.
I appreciate the heart and the intention of your proposal - thank you for posting -, but would encourage you to remember that this world is not our home. We are strangers in a strange land. Remain faithful to the calling the Lord has given you, and love people well - even when they disregard what we hold dear. ❤️

Let's start from a prayer, and ask God makes a way.

Religion starts at home for the students. We have different religions in America. So, there is separation of church and school.

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