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Sen. Dennis Kruse, R-Auburn, has filed a bill that would allow school districts to require the recitation of the Lords Prayer, though individual students could opt out if they or their parents preferred.
With former U.S. Rep. Mike Pence taking office as Indianas next governor and with his fellow Republicans holding overwhelming majorities in both the House and Senate, some critics have anticipated an easy path for such socially conservative issues in this years legislature.
But Pence has said his focus is on the issues of taxes, education and jobs, not social issues. And House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, echoed that, saying Republicans in the House all understand our focus. .?.?. Were going to focus on whats important: budget integrity, job creation and improving education.
http://www.indystar.com/article/20130103/NEWS05/130103032/Sen-Kruse-s-bill-would-allow-schools-require-saying-Lord-s-Prayer
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)Aristus
(66,316 posts)Or, alternatively, Greek, Hebrew, or Aramaic.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)tblue37
(65,334 posts)block letters. Cuneiform is a writing system, not a spoken language.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)because it IS a written language only
Here, watch this as an example:
tblue37
(65,334 posts)Thanks for posting it!
kentauros
(29,414 posts)Now, we need to find a way of converting the Lord's prayer into something similar. Kids would love it because they'd get to dance and palm people's faces in place of some words
LibertyLover
(4,788 posts)Can be spoken today, Hittite for one. At my college roommate's wedding, in the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, the entire ceremony was in Sumerian and done by Dr. Simo Parpula, a noted Sumerologist. The wife of our Hittite professor, Mrs. Guterbock, sung a wedding song in Hittite whose melody had only recently been translated. It was pretty neat, especially since the wedding party was in costume as we're some of the guests. I went as the Egyptian envoy and had a special part in the ceremony. Like I said, it was neat.
tblue37
(65,334 posts)the languages are spoken, but cursive is not spoken, and block printing is not spoken, and cuneiform is not spoken.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)It's still the same prayer, just reversed, like backwards-masked satanic music
LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)You know, we as a nation are already falling behind in many ways with education and that is due in part to spending our time fighting these asinine things.
snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)If a student thinks something isnt true, then they can question the teacher, and the teacher would have to come up with some kind of research to support that what they are teaching is true or not true, he said then.
Back to the prayer issue. Why can't prayer-ful students pray with their families or by themselves prior to setting foot into school or silently in school? To me Kruse's efforts are attempts to unconstitutionally spread the Word.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)DearHeart
(692 posts)spanone
(135,824 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Couldn't resist
Behind the Aegis
(53,951 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Seig Heil, y'all.
DearHeart
(692 posts)They want the Lord's prayer in their child's classroom, send them to a religious school that's affiliated with their church!
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)Iman A. Sole
(7 posts)Seriously. Diane Feinstein is under withering fire from gun advocates who are having a conniption about the 2nd Amendment and their Constitutional rights. But the silence is deafening from these same people when legislation like this is proposed. Just more proof that they're not really interested in defending the Constitutional rights of Americans. They're interested in defending guns.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)This is nothing more than grandstanding holier-than-thou self-righteousness.