In the United States, we need a religious bill of rights about as much as we need a white people\u2019s bill of rights, or a men\u2019s bill of rights. That is, not at all: when 90+ percent of the country claims to be religious, you pretty much run the joint anyway. Worse, we hardly need something like this for public schools. There already are pretty clear laws about how religion can and cannot be treated in the schools.<\/p>\n
Still, that hasn\u2019t stopped people in Colorado from proposing just such a bill for public schools<\/a> in the state legislature, a bill which may be presented to the Judiciary Committee as early as Monday, today. Note that this bill represents an act and not a law. Nothing in it is legally enforceable, as far as I can tell. Good thing, too.<\/p>\n The bill is ridiculous in a lot of ways, but two things stand out: one is that it simply isn\u2019t needed \u2014 most of the rights it seems so concerned over are already guaranteed and under no threat at all \u2014 and the other is that it oversteps the bounds maintained by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.<\/p>\n [[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the United States, we need a religious bill of rights about as much as we need a white people\u2019s bill of rights, or a men\u2019s bill of rights. That is, not at all: when 90+ percent of the country … Continue reading