State Representative Barbara Norton (D-Shreveport), from House District 3.
Rep. Barbara Norton disses Declaration of Independence
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According to Nola.com, Norton then proposed an amendment to Hodges’ bill that would have elementary school children recite the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which addresses citizenship rights and was passed as one of the Reconstruction Amendments after the Civil War. Similarly, Smith then proposed an amendment that students recite a text drafted during a Women’s Suffrage conference from the 19th century. Additionally, state Rep. Ed Price (D) proposed that students recite part of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
Hodges, however, pulled her bill prior to consideration of any of the other amendments.
Bigga, please...
Unbelievable. The crazies are in charge.
Our 8th grade history teacher required us to memorize the preamble to the constitution. I suppose there’s nothing offensive in that.
Well libs if you’d just left well enough alone the past 7 years and stopped trying to push your grand social experiment failure down our throats you wouldn’t have to be contending with this type of thing but you forced our hand by harassing us just a little too much. Expect a lot more pushback in the yearst to come.
“All transgenders were created more equal...”
Does she believe that the Founding Fathers created mankind?
Thinks a principle is the head of a school.
State Representative Barbara Norton (D-Shreveport), from House District 3.
All men are created equal in the eyes of God. What happens after that is the consequence of living in a sinful world.
However; in the case of Rep. Norton maybe God did hold something back.
I agree. We are not all equal. It’s good Masonic propaganda on Jefferson’s part, but the phrase as written is too vague to be meaningful.
” African-Americans were slaves”
They ignorantly think being black meant being a slave and that wasn’t true.
Besides, blacks started slavery in America. Anthony Johnson, a black man, enslaved John Casor, a black man.
This stupid negress deserves to be in chains on a chain gang breaking rocks for a living instead of making laws. She obviously knows nothing about history nor does she care a whit about America, our Founding Documents, or even her own heritage. All she cares about is her twisted version of her own tribal identity. She is a disgrace to Louisiana and this country.
The DoI was a breakup letter to Britain. The colonies were basically telling Britain to go pound sand.
“All men women and others are created equal”
Fixed it.
Thin skinned America haters...
Well then, I guess they want to shut down Sunday Schools, because the Bible was written "during a time in history when slavery was prevalent."
Then they should never learn about the 13th and 14th amendments nor the 19th.
The introductory passages of the Declaration have nothing to do with any egalitarian delusion. The introduction goes to the reasons for the document to follow. The explanation--endlessly quoted out of context--goes to the nature & function of legitimate Government; basic to the compact theory that follows is the concept that existing Governments--whether Kings or Parliaments--do not rule by divine right;-- but by consent of the Governed, for the purpose of securing the natural rights of the people adhering to that Government.
The equality at Creation flows from the non-existence of any divine mandate for anyone to rule anyone else. Hierarchies arise, naturally, but not by divine decree. Whether they are justified or not depends upon the behavior of the actors.
What follows, of course, before the actual declaration of State sovereignty, is the long indictment--the specific grievances of the Colonies--against the King & Parliament.