Besides a violation of separation of church and state they seem to think that our government was based on Judeo Christian beliefs. That is completely false. Besides many of the lawmakers at the time were agnostics or just simply ‘believers’ (deists) but did not follow a certain religion. Also ‘GOD’ is not mentioned in the Constitution;
In the United States, the federal constitution does not make a reference to God as such, although it uses the formula “the year of our Lord” in Article VII.
I was told that was used because we used the Christian calendar, which is way different then Christian Doctrine. Also the Declaration of Independence is pretty scarce on that GOD word;
Nature’s God: The source of power in the first sentence of the Declaration
Creator: God endows humans with unalienable rights
Supreme Judge of the world: God judges the actions of all people and ensures that justice prevails
Divine Providence: The founders entrusted themselves to God, who they believed had protected them and would continue to do so (The last two references were added during congressional debates over the document.)
Notice no mention of Christianity or ANY religion, and they did that on purpose. Just because you believe in a religious doctrine doesn’t mean it is always referring to the Christian God. They used the word GOD in a way that recognizes all faiths and beliefs and is a universal word for our creator. I will tell people while I am NOT religious I did attend Catholic and Lutheran services growing up and I do have faith in God, but not a religious God. So don’t call me an Atheist like Huether did on the mic at Democratic Forum once right to my face.
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I am suggesting to legislative Dems to introduce a bill that would require all classrooms to display a ‘Be Kind’ poster or better yet amend the current bill. Obviously many legislators are too ignorant to understand the separation of church and state (which actually protects Christians more then any other group). Be careful what you ask for. If this passes I look forward to the ACLU lawsuit.
Actually, from an economic standpoint, our nation was founded with the help of slavery and free labor. So, maybe we should also require all classrooms to frame and hang a bill of sale involving slave trade/sale transactions, huh? Plus, conservatives claim that the 10 Commandments is a “historical document,” but then again, so are Trump’s two divorce decrees.
But what the Dems should really be doing is not only addressing this issue and child care availability and costs, but also the rising cost of property taxes and homeowner’s insurance. For some reason, Democrats don’t like to talk about property taxes, but I think it’s because they are afraid to offend their friends in the education community. But the answer to the rising costs of property taxes is for the State to increase its take of video lottery from 50% to 65 or 75%. Janklow did this back in ’95 when he created property tax relief through an increase in the State’s take of VL from 33% to 50%. A further increase in the VL take by the State would not hurt the VL industry at all because they are already well-established and quite rich. I hate VL, but it ain’t going way, so let the State and the people get a bigger piece of its pie.
As far as the rising cost of homeowner’s insurance, what the Dems need to advocate is the creation of a bonding authority, much like what Janklow and the Democrats in South Dakota advocated in the early 80s to address the funding of student loans in response to the Reagan/Stockman massive cuts in federal student financial aid. This bonding authority could establish a massive insurance cooperative that would cut off the profiteering middleman insurance companies and bring affordability back to that market for the homeowners of this state.
But unfortunately, all I hear the Dems talking about is childcare costs, which are high, but realistically the Republicans, who have a super majority, will never address this issue, which leaves the Dems in this state to just keep preaching to the choir with no avail, but creativity with issues like property taxes and the cost of homeowner’s insurance could give the Dems some political traction in this state. #WakeUpDems!
I agree, and the reason I hate salespeople*, they are just grift. Many salespeople do very little for their commission checks. They need to get real jobs and we can eliminate the middle man. I always say if you need a salesman to make you aware of what you need, you likely don’t need it.
*this was my biggest criticism of MMM, always trying to shove something down our throats, and Pastor Poops is worse.
I’m with you on property taxes, mine went up again $100 this year, and so did my valuation. In six years my home valuation has almost doubled, but in the first 16 years I owned it, the needle barely moved. I know pay 3x more in taxes then when I bought my house. That is ridiculous.
That’s why the school bonds pissed me off because Cotter suggested to make the bond smaller and pull from revenue in the future and they ignored him and took out a $300M bond (included interest).
This homeowner’s insurance cost issue is not going away thanks to the realities of climate change. So, the Democrats need to bag this issue and SOON! #ComeOnDems! #ThinkOutsideTheBox!