katrina jackson is a democrat from louisiana
and she is a state representative in louisiana and she has an idea she wants
to dance to learn about freedom of religion
and the way she wants to use to learn about that is by having to recite the
lord's prayer
every morning in class she's introduced house bill six sixty which is a bill
that would require the state board and elementary uh... the state board of
elementary and secondary education to establish a policy and develop
procedures relative to school ppl prayer and the pledge of allegiance now when
you hear well establish a policy that seems pretty harmless but jackson once
more in that she wants to see the wall between church and state basically torn
down like the berlin wall that she wants a gun
uh... ever says his so many people
when they say freedom of religion they mean freedom of christianity that's
exactly right now her bill demands that public schools develop policies so that
students recite the lord's prayer
and the pledge of allegiance every morning that would be voluntary in the
sense that there would be no official punishment for not joining in but try
telling that to the fourteen-year-old students who sit during the pledge
refused to say the prayer
and then have to deal with the inevitable herrera harassment from the
good christians in the class right just to say that there is no official
punishment
does not mean much so whats jackson's justification for the policy
she says to ensure the reminded that the lord's prayer is the prayer that the
pilgrim fathers recited when they came to america in search of freedom
so to learn about freedom from religion
you are kind of told that the policy here is we recite a christian prayer
doesn't make much sense not at all
jackson want students to say the lord's prayer but she is not trying to
influence their personal believes she said
uh... and that this is also constitutional because it is voluntary
had that's really where i wanna focus guys 'cause i think that's the
interesting part
voluntariness does not excuse a constitutional violation that is the
quote from andrew side l of the freedom from religion fat foundation
and a number of legal experts agree the the ability to opt out of something
does not make it constitutional if it would be unconstitutional if it were
mandatory
that's that's the though the the legal situation
and um... so what you think about this but i mean it's it's the same states
over and over again
it's a democrat here this is not
always a partisan thing all the typically it is this is a southern
democrat from louisiana in this case
do you think it that katrina jackson really doesn't understand that this is
not the way to teach freedom of religion
or do you think she just doesn't care
uh... i don't think she's very bright on it seems like she doesn't realize is
that uh... religious pilgrims didn't uh... rate the constitution the
declaration of independence they did come here
as immigrants but uh... the ones who wrote the constitution believes in the
separation of church and state so iron ore she's go in there and i will say
sorry about her being a democrat
uh... itll like you said in the states it really makes no difference uh...
these
insane unconstitutional laws uh... are more than i mean the the party has
really no bearing on it and what's going on here iri lead don't know what you
would say about where this can end up but my feeling is in about six months
it's not an existing more i would assume the same
yet this uh... this is an gonna fly
uh...
are are not shocked that its democratic anton said in the southern states it's
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