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Topic: If you're an atheist high school student in Arizona...

Anonymous A started this discussion 13 years ago #25,278

Good luck with your future. You'd never get a degree according to these assholes.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/01/25/arizona-republicans-propose-bill-that-would-not-allow-atheists-to-graduate-high-school/

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 9 minutes later[^] [v] #386,201

lol Christian Taliban

buspup !!x+kkCmnF4 joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 2 hours later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #386,234

This is just disgusting, and might get them sued by the FFRF.

Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 4 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #386,236

It would get challenged immediately by the ACLU and the courts would strike it down pretty quickly. I think it sucks that lawmakers in Arizona don't know what the Supreme Court has ruled on religious issues but even if by some miracle it passed and was signed into law, it probably wouldn't even have time to take effect before it was struck down.

Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 2 hours later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #386,247

lolamerica

doctor dreamworks md !jdTkvovFCQ joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 14 hours later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #386,391

I dont agree with this but you are rephrasing it entirely wrong.
Atheists can get a degree just as easy as Christians, they'd just have to lie about an oath

squeegee joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 15 minutes later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #386,395

@386,236 (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
Oh, they know. But they keep making stupid unpassable laws to draw attention to it. They manufacture drama like this probably hoping to make it look like the courts hate god.

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 10 minutes later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #386,398

@386,391 (doctor dreamworks md !jdTkvovFCQ)
But then some asshole could propose a law that strips them of their diploma if they suspect they lied on the oath.

doctor dreamworks md !jdTkvovFCQ replied with this 13 years ago, 11 minutes later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #386,402

@previous (A)
but that is not what this is

squeegee replied with this 13 years ago, 18 minutes later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #386,404

@previous (doctor dreamworks md !jdTkvovFCQ)
So what if an atheist kid has pride and enough conviction to be honest and refuse to say the oath in full. Then he would be denied a diploma for an education that was compulsory.

So the state demands you go to school and will refuse to give you credit if you don't vow an oath to an imaginary invisible magician.

doctor dreamworks md !jdTkvovFCQ replied with this 13 years ago, 3 minutes later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #386,406

@previous (squeegee)
that is not denying an atheist to get a diploma though, that person just has to lie about it

squeegee replied with this 13 years ago, 9 minutes later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #386,411

@previous (doctor dreamworks md !jdTkvovFCQ)
What if they don't want to lie, and prefer to be honest about their beliefs?
One shouldn't have to lie about god to get a diploma they worked 12 years to earn.

That's rediculous. Your education shouldn't hinge on religious verocity.

doctor dreamworks md !jdTkvovFCQ replied with this 13 years ago, 20 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #386,534

@previous (squeegee)
i'm just saying op's headline is incorrect.

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 5 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #386,567

I wouldn't care if I didn't get the diploma. Never wanted to be there in the first place, so refusing to take the oath would be the ultimate "fuck you" to the whole fucking state.
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