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More religious liberty in Ohio
#31
RE: More religious liberty in Ohio
This is not defending religious liberty, this is an attempt for the insecure to undermine facts.
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#32
RE: More religious liberty in Ohio
(November 20, 2019 at 9:29 am)Brian37 Wrote: This is not defending religious liberty, this is an attempt for the insecure to undermine facts.

*gently and repeatedly thumps his head on the desk*

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#33
RE: More religious liberty in Ohio
(November 20, 2019 at 8:58 am)polymath257 Wrote: The problem in the bill is decide *which* academic standards are to be used. Let's give a scenario.

Suppose we are in a geology class and the teacher asks when the Jurassic period was. One student gives ana answer of 8250 years ago.

Can the teacher mark it wrong?

The student claims that this is the correct answer according to their religion and it conforms to the conclusions of the Institute for Creation Research, so it passes *their* religions academic standards.

According to this law, as stated, the teacher cannot give the student a lower grade for that answer.

And that is fundamentally wrong.

Quote:Assignment grades and scores shall be calculated using ordinary academic standards of substance and relevance, including any legitimate pedagogical concerns

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#34
RE: More religious liberty in Ohio
What a strange country we live in. I have no issue with someone holding their own religious beliefs. But you can't tell me 2+2 is 5 when it is actually 4 because of your religious beliefs.
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#35
RE: More religious liberty in Ohio
(November 20, 2019 at 3:35 pm)Atomic Lava Wrote: What a strange country we live in. I have no issue with someone holding their own religious beliefs. But you can't tell me 2+2 is 5 when it is actually 4 because of your religious beliefs.

That's not what the bill says.  (But I do agree that you live in a strange country.)

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#36
RE: More religious liberty in Ohio
(November 20, 2019 at 10:40 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(November 20, 2019 at 8:58 am)polymath257 Wrote: The problem in the bill is decide *which* academic standards are to be used. Let's give a scenario.

Suppose we are in a geology class and the teacher asks when the Jurassic period was. One student gives ana answer of 8250 years ago.

Can the teacher mark it wrong?

The student claims that this is the correct answer according to their religion and it conforms to the conclusions of the Institute for Creation Research, so it passes *their* religions academic standards.

According to this law, as stated, the teacher cannot give the student a lower grade for that answer.

And that is fundamentally wrong.

Quote:Assignment grades and scores shall be calculated using ordinary academic standards of substance and relevance, including any legitimate pedagogical concerns

Boru

So, according with the interpretation, its a law that has no action. I suppose those lawmakers need to show work done to their voters, to justify their paychecks. Heh, can't blame them.
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#37
RE: More religious liberty in Ohio
(November 20, 2019 at 3:53 pm)LastPoet Wrote:
(November 20, 2019 at 10:40 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Boru

So, according with the interpretation, its a law that has no action. I suppose those lawmakers need to show work done to their voters, to justify their paychecks. Heh, can't blame them.

That's probably the fairest assessment of the law so far.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#38
RE: More religious liberty in Ohio
Its the fairest outcome, but not the fairest assessment. Ohio is a battleground state for nutballs selling jesus. They are emphatically not interested in religious liberty, of any kind, which is a term of art...for nutballs selling jesus.
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#39
RE: More religious liberty in Ohio
(November 19, 2019 at 2:27 pm)brewer Wrote: Under the law, students can’t be penalized if their work is scientifically wrong as long as the reasoning is because of their religious beliefs."

So wait, if Christians claim to be pro science then why do they need laws to allow them to go against science?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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#40
RE: More religious liberty in Ohio
(November 20, 2019 at 11:14 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:
(November 19, 2019 at 2:27 pm)brewer Wrote: Under the law, students can’t be penalized if their work is scientifically wrong as long as the reasoning is because of their religious beliefs."

So wait, if Christians claim to be pro science then why do they need laws to allow  them to go against science?

You need a book on situational ethics, I think.
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