Monserrat
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Arizona Republicans Propose Bill That Would Not Allow Atheists To Graduate High School
Awful damn hard to be a pagan and a conservative in this country when our so-called "conservative party" apparently hates you.
Well...you are in a Christian majority country and Arizona as of 2008 was made up of 89% Christians according to the Pew Research center so there's going to be a lot of Christian elements in this nation and in the state so I'm not particularly shocked surprised or even appalled that the word God was used in the language of the bill.
At the end of the site you posted, they go on to say that the 'religious' language will likely not even be a part of the final draft:
As written, the bill does not exempt atheist students or those of different faiths from the requirement, though Thorpe has pledged to amend the measure. “In that we had a tight deadline for dropping our bills, I was not able to update the language,” he wrote in an e-mail to the Arizona Republic. “Even though I want to encourage all of our students to understand and respect our Constitution and constitutional form of government, I do not want to create a requirement that students or parents may feel uncomfortable with.”
Arizona Republicans Propose Bill That Would Not Allow Atheists To Graduate High School
So religious concerns are a non-issue in my opinion. I'm more concerned with legislators wasting their time on a pointless Bill that accomplishes nothing and has the potential for causing a lot of problems.
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