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I grew up in Miami, but I spent my junior and senior years of high school in Houston, Texas.\u00a0 My experiences in Jewish suburbia did not prepare me for the wacky Christianity that I would see there.\u00a0 One day in my social studies class we had a guest speaker who came to \u201ctestify\u201d about Christ.\u00a0 The year after I graduated, students dedicated the yearbook to Jesus Christ<\/a>.\u00a0 The place was just nuts.<\/p>\n

Like Texas, Tennessee lags behind no one in its love of faith-based everything and there is a proposed law to prove it<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The legislation would require school districts to implement a policy to create a \u201climited public forum\u201d before campus events such as the beginning of a school day or before a football game. Select students would be eligible to speak freely at these forums, including about religion, and the school district would issue a disclaimer before those speeches.<\/p>\n

\u2026Under the bill, school districts also would require teachers to treat a student\u2019s faith-based answers to school assignments the same as secular answers. But while the bill allows faith-based answers, those responses must be justified like any other student\u2019s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The first part of the proposal is a blatant end-run around the prohibition on public prayers.\u00a0 But it\u2019s the second part that intrigues me.\u00a0 I\u2019m trying to imagine how this could go in various subjects:<\/p>\n

Question:\u00a0<\/i> What is 2 + 1?<\/p>\n

Answer:\u00a0<\/i> 5, because 1 = 3.\u00a0 Justification:\u00a0 Matthew 28:19 shows in its teaching of the trinity that one and three are the same.<\/p>\n

Question:<\/i>\u00a0 What are the basic parts of the human circulatory system?<\/p>\n

Answer:\u00a0 <\/i>All parts of the circulatory system are made of mud.\u00a0 Justification: Genesis 2:6-7, \u201cAnd the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

Question:\u00a0 <\/i>What were some of the reasons for the Holocaust?<\/p>\n

Answer:\u00a0<\/i> The Jews killed Jesus.\u00a0 Justification: I Thessalonians 2:14-15 and Matthew 26:57-68.<\/p>\n

Question:\u00a0<\/i> What is the process by which plants convert sunlight into energy?<\/p>\n

Answer:\u00a0<\/i> Plants don\u2019t need sunlight for anything.\u00a0 Justification:\u00a0 Plants were created by the Lord on the third day and there was no sun until the fourth day as it teaches us in Genesis 1:11-19.<\/p>\n

Really, the possibilities are endless and they\u2019ll all get straight A\u2019s!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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