Gov. Jeff Landry (R-LA) signed America’s first law requiring all public classrooms — even in schools for older kids who aren’t credulous little bags of credulity — to display one of God’s most famous works...
Lessons in history should be required for those who promote the "historical significance" of the Tenish (love that line) Commandments.
Sec 1. A(7) of the bill (on page 2) refers to the Mayflower Compact and it is total hogwash. It was neither "America's first written constitution" nor "the first purely American document of self-government."
The many-details-omitted version of the history: A group of English settlers were headed for the northern reaches of Virginia (which extended to the mouth of the Hudson River). They wound up in what is now Plymouth, MA.
But that put them beyond the bounds of their patent, their lawful authority to settle on "the King's land," which was for Virginia. Some of the passengers said that meant everyone could do as they pleased and no one had any authority over them. Because that seemed a threat to the group's function (and quite possibly survival), its leaders enforced the agreement under the threat of barring dissenters from getting off the ship.
The key point is that if you compare what the document says with the powers allowed to them both under the old patent for Virginia and the one they got for New England the next year, it's clear that the "Compact" was a stopgap under which they agreed to govern themselves as if they had a patent until they got one. And it worked.
But it asserted no authority of local governance beyond those typically granted in patents for English settlements and was in no way a constitution.
And since I believe in historical accuracy, in fact I'm somewhat of a stickler about it, I have to make an edit to my post: The phrase "allowed to them both under the old patent for Virginia" should have read "allowed both under patents for Virginia," the difference being that the particular patent they got for Virginia has been lost but there are ample examples for Virginia in the period to be highly confident about what that one said about self-governing.
I wrote the original thinking "I need to double check if that patent survived" and then never did. My bad.
Brilliant. Jon seems to be at his best when he's debunking religious shit.
I'm hopeful the donate button will allow the person who could maybe afford $50 will have the privilege of donating something. ALSO: GIVE A GIFT SUBSCRIPTION. THIS COULD BE A WAY OF COMING OUT TO YOUR FRIENDS & FAMILY THAT YOU ARE A COMMIE, PINKO, RADICAL ACTIVIST!
Thank you, John. And thank you for staying on me about adding a donate button for the past few days (months). I don't wanna speak for TFN's brand new unofficial director of audience development, but John makes a GREAT point that a TFN gift subscription is a great way of outing yourself to that someone special as a lover of humanity, friend to all animals, and champion of reason and the downtrodden. Give TFN today and be seen in a brighter tomorrow!
... you may have missed the REVISED TEN COMMANDMENTS from the Bible according to Trump, in which it says it's OK to molest young girls. That might be the version that will be in LA schools? Here are the new commandments for your convenience.
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Lessons in history should be required for those who promote the "historical significance" of the Tenish (love that line) Commandments.
Sec 1. A(7) of the bill (on page 2) refers to the Mayflower Compact and it is total hogwash. It was neither "America's first written constitution" nor "the first purely American document of self-government."
The many-details-omitted version of the history: A group of English settlers were headed for the northern reaches of Virginia (which extended to the mouth of the Hudson River). They wound up in what is now Plymouth, MA.
But that put them beyond the bounds of their patent, their lawful authority to settle on "the King's land," which was for Virginia. Some of the passengers said that meant everyone could do as they pleased and no one had any authority over them. Because that seemed a threat to the group's function (and quite possibly survival), its leaders enforced the agreement under the threat of barring dissenters from getting off the ship.
The key point is that if you compare what the document says with the powers allowed to them both under the old patent for Virginia and the one they got for New England the next year, it's clear that the "Compact" was a stopgap under which they agreed to govern themselves as if they had a patent until they got one. And it worked.
But it asserted no authority of local governance beyond those typically granted in patents for English settlements and was in no way a constitution.
Nothing better than a good historical smackdown of ahistoricity. Thank you.
And thank you right back.
And since I believe in historical accuracy, in fact I'm somewhat of a stickler about it, I have to make an edit to my post: The phrase "allowed to them both under the old patent for Virginia" should have read "allowed both under patents for Virginia," the difference being that the particular patent they got for Virginia has been lost but there are ample examples for Virginia in the period to be highly confident about what that one said about self-governing.
I wrote the original thinking "I need to double check if that patent survived" and then never did. My bad.
Brilliant. Jon seems to be at his best when he's debunking religious shit.
I'm hopeful the donate button will allow the person who could maybe afford $50 will have the privilege of donating something. ALSO: GIVE A GIFT SUBSCRIPTION. THIS COULD BE A WAY OF COMING OUT TO YOUR FRIENDS & FAMILY THAT YOU ARE A COMMIE, PINKO, RADICAL ACTIVIST!
Thank you, John. And thank you for staying on me about adding a donate button for the past few days (months). I don't wanna speak for TFN's brand new unofficial director of audience development, but John makes a GREAT point that a TFN gift subscription is a great way of outing yourself to that someone special as a lover of humanity, friend to all animals, and champion of reason and the downtrodden. Give TFN today and be seen in a brighter tomorrow!
... you may have missed the REVISED TEN COMMANDMENTS from the Bible according to Trump, in which it says it's OK to molest young girls. That might be the version that will be in LA schools? Here are the new commandments for your convenience.
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/01/07/ten-commandments-maga-edition/