Pod Only Knows #029 – Thou Shalt Not Violate the 1st Amendment
Well it’s been a heck of a week of bad news, and even before the Supreme Court decided the the president was king, Kelly and John decided to look at two news stories likely to play into next year’s Supreme Court decisions: Louisiana’s new Ten Commandment school mandate and Oklahoma’s new requirement to include the Bible in its public school curriculum.
On the surface, both of these measures are clearly, explicitly unconstitutional, and both have plenty of precedent to back up their unconstitutionality.
But in this episode we argue that that may not matter, and that lawsuit-hungry ideas like these are designed to fine-tune a decades-long attempt to bring Christian indoctrination into the public education system.
And, given the makeup of the current court, one of them may actually work.
Some resources used in this episode:
NYT: Louisiana Requires All Public Classrooms to Display Ten Commandments
NYT: Oklahoma’s State Superintendent Requires Public Schools to Teach the Bible
MSNBC: Louisiana’s new mandate is the first step in a sinister vision for the country
Cecil B. DeMille And Roy’s Rock
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