Does character matter to evangelicals any more?

[OldFlame]

Just this year…

Oklahoma requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in all classrooms

Oklahoma requiring Bibles in the classroom

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Oklahoma is requiring all public schools to incorporate the Ten Commandments into their curriculum, alongside the Bible, for grades 5-12. This directive, issued by State Superintendent Ryan Walters,

No, the state of Alabama does not currently require the Ten Commandments in classrooms as of August 2025, although a bill (HB178/SB166) was passed by the House and advanced in the Senate during the 2025 legislative session that would have mandated displays in K-12 schools. The measure failed to pass both chambers and is likely to return in the 2026 legislative session, at which point it will face anticipated legal challenges, similar to laws in other states.

They're allowed to put up whatever bill they want for a vote, the people elected them to vote, that's how DEMOCRACY works.

Oklahoma is still mostly God fearing Christian people, what's wrong with Bibles in the classroom, are they not allowed to teach about religion? You have no problem with books about gays and gay sex in the classroom. No one is forcing children to read it, nothing is being mandated like your covid 'vaccines' were. So imo that's not an example of anyone mandating religion to anyone.

 

[OldFlame]

Just this year…

Oklahoma requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in all classrooms

Oklahoma requiring Bibles in the classroom

View attachment 1155039
Oklahoma is requiring all public schools to incorporate the Ten Commandments into their curriculum, alongside the Bible, for grades 5-12. This directive, issued by State Superintendent Ryan Walters,

And there you go again, you don't want 'religious' people involved in politics, but then turn around and ***** that Christians aren't voting enough for 'religious' people. It's highly amusing.

 

[rightwinger]

And there you go again, you don't want 'religious' people involved in politics, but then turn around and ***** that Christians aren't voting enough for 'religious' people. It's highly amusing.

Evangelicals are forcing their religious views on the Government

A clear violation of the First Amendment

 

[justoffal]

Just this year…

Oklahoma requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in all classrooms

Oklahoma requiring Bibles in the classroom

View attachment 1155039
Oklahoma is requiring all public schools to incorporate the Ten Commandments into their curriculum, alongside the Bible, for grades 5-12. This directive, issued by State Superintendent Ryan Walters,

Eventually the other side will gain more votes and undo it.

 

[rightwinger]

Oklahoma is still mostly God fearing Christian people, what's wrong with Bibles in the classroom, are they not allowed to teach about religion?

First Amendment…..Congress shall pass no laws regarding establishment of religion

First Commandment…. I am the Lord thy God, you shall have no Gods before me

 

[berg80]

No doubt evangelicals have become a major force in politics. Their rise to power was fueled by groups like the Moral Majority and their insistence that character matters. Jimmy Carter was said to be unfit for the presidency because one of his interviews was published in Playboy magazine. Clinton's affair with an intern was seen as a personal affront to all that is good. With Trump, character doesn't seem to matter. Evangelicals are even proud of his lapses in honesty claiming that God is using a flawed man to do his will. Does character still matter, or does it just not matter for trump?

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/religion/2016/08/26/can-evangelicals-ignore-trump-clinton-character-flaws/89404186/

Pat Robinson, Jimmy Swaggart, Jerry Falwell, did character ever matter?

 

[Chuz Life]

If you're so concerned about the character of evangelicals, you'd best become one and show them all how it's done properly.

Oh snap!

 

[rightwinger]

Eventually the other side will gain more votes and undo it.

Hopefully, our Supreme Court will grow a sack and enforce the First Amendment like every court before them

 

[hadit]

No doubt evangelicals have become a major force in politics. Their rise to power was fueled by groups like the Moral Majority and their insistence that character matters. Jimmy Carter was said to be unfit for the presidency because one of his interviews was published in Playboy magazine. Clinton's affair with an intern was seen as a personal affront to all that is good. With Trump, character doesn't seem to matter. Evangelicals are even proud of his lapses in honesty claiming that God is using a flawed man to do his will. Does character still matter, or does it just not matter for trump?

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/religion/2016/08/26/can-evangelicals-ignore-trump-clinton-character-flaws/89404186/

I know what you're trying to do here, and I want you to consider the logical extension of what you're saying. Consider if you got what you want, and all the American Evangelicals publicly agree to vote ONLY for candidates with the absolutely highest moral character, candidates that belong to and are members in good standing in an Evangelical church, IOW, one of their own.

How long would it be before democrats started running around screaming about a theocracy and demanding that Evangelicals stop insisting on such high moral character?

 

[hadit]

If you're so concerned about the character of evangelicals, you'd best become one and show them all how it's done properly.

They don't really want Evangelicals to, in vast numbers, influence elections. If you thought "Russia!, Russia!, Russia!" was bad...

 

[The Irish Ram]

I don't know. Seems arbitrary. I do know that Evangelicals annoy me. I don't like being preached to.

A lot of evangelicals cornering you at the market, muttering scripture at you? Maybe corralling you when you stop for gas? Sitting next to you at your child's baseball game?

 

[hadit]

RULE #4 “Make the Enemy live up to its own book of rules.”

As I pointed out, they don't really want that to happen. All American Evangelicals agreeing to vote for only certain candidates would have them wailing about a theocracy and trying to find ways to stop them.

 

[knuckles]

A lot of evangelicals cornering you at the market, muttering scripture at you? Maybe corralling you when you stop for gas? Sitting next to you at your child's baseball game?

No, I'm good at avoiding them.

 

[BlindBoo]

Does character still matter, or does it just not matter for trump?

It never mattered. Still doesn't

 

[OldFlame]

Evangelicals are forcing their religious views on the Government

A clear violation of the First Amendment

No they're not. No one is mandating you practice any religion, period, nor are they trying to.

 

[OldFlame]

Eventually the other side will gain more votes and undo it.

It wasn't passed.

 

[kyzr]

Evangelicals are forcing their religious views on the Government
A clear violation of the First Amendment

Typing lies doesn't prove anything.

 

[OldFlame]

First Amendment…..Congress shall pass no laws regarding establishment of religion

First Commandment…. I am the Lord thy God, you shall have no Gods before me

There is no establishment of religion in anything you mentioned.

 

[Stann]

Well to be fair they're going through the proper channels... Political activism.... And getting out the vote. It looks like the evangelicals may become the new anti-progressive response.

They should lose their tax exempt status then.

 

[kyzr]

There is no establishment of religion in anything you mentioned.

I could argue that libs are anti-religion by forcing perversion and deviant behavior in grade schools
Forcing gay books and gay dancers on innocent kids needs to be outlawed.