A point of clarification - I've seen some memes going around, and I'd like to address them.
Yes, your child can pray at school. There is nothing stopping them.
What they CANNOT do is force other students to pray with them, or follow the tenets of their religion.
Teachers and schools cannot force one religion on students in a public school. Everyone should be fine with that, unless you're okay with your child being taught to speak in tongues, handle venomous snakes, being told they must never dance, drink, smoke, or wear a zipper.
If you're okay with your children being taught they can't have pork, mix meat and cheese, wear polyester with cotton and so on, then send them to the religious school of your choice.
Republicans don't care about truth, law, rules, compassion, community, democracy, or anything like that.
They don't suffer from cognitive dissonance, and hypocrisy is only a tool to use against Democrats.
Republicans will say one thing and a moment later say the opposite - because it serves their purpose to do so. Whatever works to push their agenda. Whatever will help them in that moment.
Power and control are what they want, and they will stop at nothing to get it.
Democracy only matters to them if they can twist it to make it work for them.
Once they start losing, democracy is just another impediment to their ultimate goal.
I came across something I wrote some years back, and I think it is relevant to the "Man or Bear?" conversation. So, a thread, but first some observations:
When a woman is in an abusive relationship, what's the first thing people say?
"Why doesn't she just leave?"
And I'd like to point out, first of all, that this puts the onus to fix things on the woman. Again.
She's being abused, and fears for her life, but it's on HER to fix it.
Why?
So here's my older post:
Why don’t women leave?
Because of financial reasons.
Because they’ve been programmed by subtle, abusive propaganda to believe that they cannot survive on their own. That they’re not good enough, not smart enough, not capable enough.