• @mhague
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    12 hours ago

    Mahmoud v Taylor is objecting to the idea that teachers will be forced to read books that contain ideas that go against whatever beliefs they claim to have.

    I don’t get what their ideal system would be like. Homeschool style curriculum taught by tax funded public teachers?

    You can already interact with institutions and have a say in what is taught – where’s the opt outs for religiously influenced policy decisions, like abortion or contraceptives?

    “We decided something democratically, but I didn’t like the outcome and want an option to not live by it.” The religious are preaching to the choir.

    Edit: link to a source, but probably not a good one because I never figured out a good way to read this stuff on my own. https://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docket/docketfiles/html/public\24-297.html

  • @[email protected]
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    1614 hours ago

    Let me guess – the same people don’t want kids to be able to be opted out of religious stuff in schools

  • @[email protected]
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    2017 hours ago

    I think we should just take a few southern states, break them off, and let the dumb people all opt in to living there if they want to be intentionally ignorant.

    • Zier
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      14 hours ago

      I suggest we move all the Cubans to America, make them citizens, and use Cuba as the island for misfit toys these ignorant freaks.

    • Flying Squid
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      916 hours ago

      Sorry, too late. 160 years after the end of the Civil War, the Confederates finally won. And all they had to do was find the right Yankee.