This is me venting. I'm emotional. I try to be open-minded about Christianity and Christians and I feel like I'm disappointed everytime.
This morning I got the following email in my inbox. For context, I live in Texas:
> SB 10 requires public schools to display a copy of the Ten Commandments in every classroom, and specifies the wording and size of the posters. The Ten Commandments will be on Frisco ISD classroom walls by the start of school. T**his is the only religious text that will be permitted to be displayed in Frisco ISD classrooms** unless otherwise tied to a Texas Essential Knowledge standard appropriate for the student’s grade level.
Emphasis mine
For further context, most Frisco ISD schools have close to 50% of kids from non-Christian backgrounds. There are significant number of them from Hindu and Muslim religions. I guess none of them matter.
Thank you Christians
Edit: I've since had time to digest this and I'm sorry for my blanket statement. That being said, it is still Christians who formulated this bill and Christians who passed it, even if it were not all. Even if this bill were designed to fail in the court and was just enacted to score political points, what does that tell me about the people to crafted it?
Thank you so much to those who posted messages of sympathy and encouragement. It is very meaningful
As for the other....I gotta say, a lot of you are either ignorant or don't care about the Constitution of the US, the supreme law of the land which this law goes against both in spirit and letter.
For those who might not be aware, I swore the following oath when I became a citizen and I hold myself to it. It is disturbing that there are so many of you that don't. Emphasis mine:
>I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that **I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same;** that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; **so help me God.**
yeah those last 4 words have significance to me, unlike some of you who don't care