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Establishmentarians (Updated) 0

Alabama recently passed a law requiring the display of (one particular version of) the Ten Commandments in public schools.

At AL.com, PJ Schwartz, Rabbi of the century and a half old Temple B’nai Sholom in Huntsville, Alabama, cuts through the plethora of prevarications propagated to promote this practice. Here’s a tiny bit from his article (emphasis added):

Proponents of the bill claim it is “historical,” “educational,” and religiously neutral. For the record, it is not about history, it is not about education, and it is certainly not religiously neutral.

Calling this law “historical” is not just inaccurate. It is a strategy—a way to give legal and cultural cover to something that would be far more obvious if it were named honestly: privilege of one particular Christian worldview in a public institution meant to serve everyone.

Addendum:

Here’s a discussion of the different versions of the Ten Commandments.

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