What Trump means by the ‘total protection’ of prayer in schools
During a speech during a hearing of his so-called religious freedom commission, President Donald Trump made a Passionate that the Ministry of Education will issue new advice “protecting the right to prayer in our public schools, and it is total protection”.
Who means?
If Trump or the Secretary of Education Linda McMahon had taken the trouble to watch the website of the Ministry of Education, they would have found Guidance now archived Explain that nothing in the Constitution prohibits public schools from praying. Students can pray whenever they are not engaged in school activities or instructions, can read sacred texts and can pray with other students during the non-instruction time. Students can distribute religious material to their classmates.
Okay, but what about the freedom of teachers and coaches to pray in schools, could you ask? Well, thanks to the Supreme Court, even coercive and openly Christian prayers led by football coaches on the 50 yards line are completely cool. It was the outfit Kennedy c. Bremertonwhere the conservative judges were so impatient to leave Mr. Praying Football Coach to make his way so that they lied to The facts of this case to justify their participation. The majority holder of the coach the actions as “[ing] His prayers quietly while his students were otherwise occupied ”- a total lie. Kennedy would have his athletes and that the opposing team kneels around him in public while leading them in prayer. He would then pray ostentatious in front of the students and spectators of the line of 50 yards after the matches. By the Supreme Court, it’s just a dandy, when more Trump wants?
What Trump really said to his audience is that he wants schools to force students to pray to Christian prayers and demand that public schools display Christian religious texts, such as the ten commandments. This is what he considers a “total protection” of prayer.
How do we know that? Because conservative states are already growing it.
In Texas, the prosecutor of the state Ken Paxton said he said wishes All students of the public school must say the prayer of the Lord. This is very different from Paxton’s actions in the face of the frightening perspective that Muslim students pray to private and quietly in a classroom. There, in 2017, he complained that allowing students to use an empty classroom excludes students from other confessions, writing an open letter to the school in the Dallas region to express his “concerns”.
Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas each have presented Objectively unconstitutional laws that force schools to display the ten commandments. These are slapped by the lower courts, but that would still be the case. The objective is to reach the Supreme Court so that he decides that forcing children to pray to Christian prayers at school is good and does not violate the first amendment.
And then Trump can sing how it is another of his “Victories for people of faith. “Yes, the White House maintains a count that flows how useful it is to ensure religious freedom, and it is up to 100 years from Monday, by their count.
Yeah, about these boards. The advisory council of religious leaders is populated almost exclusively by people named Christian and conservative Jews. Below below, in the Secular leaders sectionThere are a handful of people from the Muslim faith. The Commission for Religious Freedom seems to have no members who are neither Christians nor Jews. It is quite revealing that Trump thinks that this constitutes “leaders of all confessions”.
Trump’s 100 best victories are practically all in the name of Judeo-Christian causes or causes. A bunch of “victories” have nothing to do with religion, but rather boasts of the way he kicked in his transgender teeth.
The idea of Trump of religious freedom is not at all freedom. It is a narrow and close vision of the world fueled by the desire to impose a particularly violent strain of Christian fascism on the country. Public schools are one of its first targets, but they will certainly not be.
