Our wall of separation between religious bullshit and the government is called the Establishment Clause: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."
These days the Establishment Clause means there should be zero religious bullshit in the federal government, state governments, city governments, and public schools.
This means public schools can't have any praying to the Magic Jeebus Man, and religious fantasies like magical creationism can't be taught in public schools.
Despite the Establishment Clause, in Idiot America we have public schools which teach magical creationism instead of evolution, and students are forced to pray to Jeebus. Our asshole Christians have thrown the United States Constitution, and they are usually getting away with it because nobody complains.
I never met a Christian who wasn't a stupid fucking asshole.
One parent of a student at a public school in a hick town in Missouri did complain about the Christian assholes who want to make their public schools a place for religious brainwashing. And this includes replacing evolution with magical creationism in biology classrooms.
The problem will be fixed because now these stupid fucking assholes for Jeebus have been threatened with an expensive lawsuit if they don't throw out the Jeebus bullshit.
Unfortunately, their incompetent biology teachers will never teach evolution because those teachers think evolution is wrong. The students learn how to hate science because they think it's boring.
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The FFRF is the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Americans can contact the FFRF to complain about violations of our Establishment Clause.
FFRF urges Missouri district to address widespread state/church violations
September 6, 2019
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has given a Missouri public school district six directives to protect the right of conscience of its students against illegal government promotion of religion.
A concerned Oak Grove R-VI School District parent reported to the national state/church watchdog dozens of distinct instances of unconstitutional religious promotion occurring within the district. The violations include scheduled Christian prayers at mandatory staff meetings, religious displays on district property and the teaching of creationism in its public school curriculum. Based on those reports, FFRF has identified six action items for the district.
It is well-settled law that public schools may not advance or endorse religion, FFRF Associate Counsel Sam Grover reminded the district in a Sept. 5 letter to Superintendent Bryan Thomsen.
“The Oak Grove R-VI School District has neglected its obligations to protect the religious freedom and rights of conscience of its students and faculty members under the Establishment Clause,” writes Grover.
In its letter, FFRF addresses each violation in turn and urges the district to take immediate corrective action, including to cease scheduling prayers or inviting speakers to pray at school events and to ensure that district employees stop promoting their personal religious beliefs to students.
“The sheer breadth of these violations is shocking,” comments FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “The district must take immediate action to redress these widespread religious entanglements, which violate the rights of conscience of a captive audience of students and other community members.”
“Through this letter we have invited the school district to demonstrate its respect for the religious freedom of all its students by voluntarily changing its practices,” notes Grover. “Our goal is to avoid a lawsuit, which could cost the district hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars.”
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a national nonprofit organization with more than 30,000 members across the country, including several hundred members in Missouri. FFRF’s purposes are to protect the constitutional principle of separation between church and state, and to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, based in Madison, Wis., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational charity, is the nation's largest association of freethinkers (atheists, agnostics), and has been working since 1978 to keep religion and government separate.
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I recommend this link because it explains in great detail the problems with these fucktard biology teachers who know nothing about biology:
given a Missouri public school district six directives
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Organization alleges Oak Grove District violating constitutional rights with prayer in schools
SEPTEMBER 23, 2019, BY JESSICA ELEY
OAK GROVE, Missouri -- One metro school district is coming under fire after a parent complained that the schools are violating students' constitutional rights.
The Oak Grove School District recently received a letter from the Freedom From Religion Foundation, alleging the school district has broken several laws in regard to separation of church and state.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation said an Oak Grove parent contacted them with several complaints -- things such as prayers before faculty meetings, teaching creationism, and Bible verses posted on bulletin boards, among other things.
FOX4 spoke with several parents Monday who didn't want to be identified, but most said they're fine with the district doing these things.
But some aren't OK with handing out religious materials -- something the letter also alleges.
The district's superintendent didn't expect to be in this position.
"Was a little surprised that it was an outside organization from a different state that was concerned about what we were doing in our schools," Dr. Bryan Thomsen said.
In a statement to FOX4, the Freedom From Religion Foundation said:
"You cannot have freedom of religion in a country that doesn't have freedom from government-endorsed religion. FFRF wrote a letter of complaint to Oak Grove Schools in order to protect the freedom of religion and right of conscience of all district students and families. Each issue outlined in our letter involves instances of public school administrators or teachers promoting religion while acting on behalf of the government, which is illegal.
"By correcting the issues identified by our local complainant, the school district will be upholding the Constitution, not violating the freedom of speech or religion of anyone. District teachers and administrators remain free to practice any religion they wish while acting as private individuals, but must not turn a public school into a church, thereby ostracizing minority religious and nonreligious students and their families."
Thomsen said if needed, the district is willing to make changes.
"If for some reason we're not, we'll make adjustments accordingly. But at this point in time we feel we're following those guidelines and trying our best to educate kids," Thomsen said.
The superintendent said the district is looking at things internally and working on drafting a response to the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
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