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I cannot believe that the State of Louisiana has mandated that every classroom in the public school system from Kindergarten through the University level must post a poster size copy of the Ten Commandments.  I can’t believe in this day and age in our so-called democratic society that we are slowly but surely walking backwards all the progress we have made to evolve as a country and a society. Conservative elements that want to control every aspect of our lives are rescinding all of the laws and policies that went into place to make our citizenry and our country free and self-sustaining.  Our rights and privileges are being violated and ignored. 

Those that think they are in power are under the illusion that we will remain uneducated and ignorant so that they have free run on doing whatever they want so as to control our lives and the quality of our lives.  There is no need to post the Ten Commandments in our public schools!  We are not a Christian country, we are a country of diverse religions, ideologies, ethnicities, cultures, and have as a guarantee of our Constitution to have freedom of religious beliefs.  We cannot exclude children in a classroom environment and demand that they abide by one sector of our citizen’s beliefs.  We are a democratic system of government that has been formulated to protect our rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  We do however have a responsibility to teach our children ethics, civic responsibility, compassion, respect for self and others, active listening to others, compromise, the importance of justice, and the value and gift of living in a Democratic society.

We have a responsibility to teach children the importance and value of living a life of gratitude.  There are basic attributes that we as their elders have a duty to teach them and nurture in them so that they become contributing adults that demonstrate a concern for the welfare of others in an effort to attain a sustainable humanity in which everyone has an opportunity to thrive not just survive.  We should be teaching civics and civility.  But to take the Ten Commandments as they are written and impose them on young children and think that by middle school through college, students are going to adhere to another religion’s doctrine, that is not going to happen in this country- This is wrong on so many levels.  I hope people wake up and come to their senses. 

These posters belong in religious institutions that are in alignment with this belief system.  I see what is happening in this country and we are in unchartered waters and at risk at drowning in stupidity and mind control to keep us dumbed down, illiterate, numb, apathic, void of discernment and critical thinking skills. Wake up America! Wake up!  Too much pain, sacrifice, and genius went into the creation of our Constitution to allow an element of self-interest and greed to demolish it with the support of the dysfunctional Supreme Court.