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State Representatives Attack Declaration of Independence on Louisiana House Floor
Breitbart ^ | May 27 2016 | DR. SUSAN BERRY

Posted on 05/28/2016 5:36:19 AM PDT by Whenifhow

Democrat Louisiana state representatives launched an attack against the phrase “all men are created equal” in the Declaration of Independence Wednesday in response to the state House’s consideration of an education bill.

State Rep. Barbara Norton (D) led the charge against HB 1035, a measure that would require local school boards of education to have students in grades four to six recite a specified section of the Declaration of Independence after the current daily period of silent prayer or meditation and the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. The bill, introduced by state Rep. Valarie Hodges (R), would require students in the specified grades to recite the following passage:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Hodges, however, tabled her bill under pressure from African-American colleagues Norton and state Rep. Pat Smith (D), who argued that school children should not be required to recite words that were written during a time in history when slavery was prevalent. Norton said directly to Hodges:

One thing I do know is, all men are not created equal. When I think back in 1776, July the 4th, African-Americans were slaves, and for you to bring a bill to request that our children will recite the Declaration, I think is a little bit unfair to us to ask those children to recite something that’s not the truth.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: barbaranorton; constitution; independence; louisiana
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To: Whenifhow

“All men women and others are created equal”

Fixed it.


21 posted on 05/28/2016 6:43:27 AM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: Max in Utah

..I got this on yesterdays thread. LOL

22 posted on 05/28/2016 6:47:04 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Nifster

Just the title of the article, what opposition to the Declaration would imply.


23 posted on 05/28/2016 6:47:38 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (I'm not a smug know-it-all; I just want you to experience epistemological closure.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Sorry. My brain must be mush this morning or maybe I have seen too many make America Mexico hats.

I get it now. Very clever. And after you explained it to me I actually got a laugh

Thanks for your patiend


24 posted on 05/28/2016 7:02:23 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster

No problem, it’s always useful to get feedback. I really don’t want to live up to my tagline.


25 posted on 05/28/2016 7:19:36 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (I'm not a smug know-it-all; I just want you to experience epistemological closure.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Got it. 😂
26 posted on 05/28/2016 7:24:22 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Whenifhow

Thin skinned America haters...


27 posted on 05/28/2016 8:00:55 AM PDT by GOPJ (Clinton was impeached for LYING UNDER OATH in a SEXUAL HARASSMENT case NOT for an affair.)
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To: Whenifhow
... African-American colleagues Norton and state Rep. Pat Smith (D), who argued that school children should not be required to recite words that were written during a time in history when slavery was prevalent.

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."

28 posted on 05/28/2016 8:11:46 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers.)
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To: VRW Conspirator
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."

The ABOLITION of slavery happened during a time when slavery was prevalent. Perhaps we should roll that back also? Logic hurts sometimes.

29 posted on 05/28/2016 8:16:35 AM PDT by Big Giant Head
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To: Whenifhow

I wonder if she ever just might realize that her job exists only because of that document...


30 posted on 05/28/2016 8:19:47 AM PDT by Paleo Pete (Sure, the early bird gets the worm. But the SECOND mouse gets the cheese...)
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To: Romulus
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.

On the spiritual plane we are all equal: sinners in desperate need of Jesus and His redemptive work of propitiation on the Cross.

31 posted on 05/28/2016 8:22:12 AM PDT by Edward.Fish
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To: GailA

That was one brave man. He has it right; we should fear God, NOT man.


32 posted on 05/28/2016 8:28:04 AM PDT by NorthstarMom (God says debt is a curse and children are a blessing, yet we apply for loans and prevent pregnancy.)
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To: Whenifhow

Then they should never learn about the 13th and 14th amendments nor the 19th.


33 posted on 05/28/2016 8:45:12 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: Doogle

34 posted on 05/28/2016 8:47:09 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: CodeToad
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.

And, in addition to this, it was the courts that conferred enslavement onto Casor; granted, this was long before the Declaration of Independence, but I think that the founders were anticipating the repudiation of that travesty when they wrote the Declaration... it's too bad that the Constitution didn't abolish slavery, but the "3/5ths compromise" was indeed something that forestalled the civil war long enough for the Constitutional government to be adopted. (And it was our grave misfortune that the intervening time also had the institution intertwined into State's rights, leading to the conquest of the confederated states which, IMO, started the ball rolling on the tyrannical thought that the federal government is superior in every way to the States, turning the States into slaves of the federal government.)

35 posted on 05/28/2016 8:47:27 AM PDT by Edward.Fish
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To: Edward.Fish

Yep. Totally agree. Passing the slavery buck only made things worse.


36 posted on 05/28/2016 8:53:18 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Edward.Fish

I am pretty sure that was not Jefferson’s point.


37 posted on 05/28/2016 8:54:25 AM PDT by Romulus
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To: CodeToad

Blacks started black slavery when they sold their African brothers to the Arab slave traders.

Blacks continued it in the south. There were thousands of blacks who were slave owners, more than 3,000 black slave owners in New Orleans alone.

Our country has perpetuated the problem with its welfare programs that result in the proliferation of the least motivated and the least productive.


38 posted on 05/28/2016 8:57:16 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

Blacks never like to ask: “Where did we get all those blacks slaves?”

That’s right: From black slave wranglers!


39 posted on 05/28/2016 9:00:06 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Romulus
I am pretty sure that was not Jefferson’s point.

It doesn't matter because that fact overrides his point; why? because without Jesus everything is moot, useless, futile… death.

Only in the light of God does anything we do have real purpose, and that includes both nation-building (or separation) and attempting to obtain justice — which was Jefferson's point. That our first founding document places this in the forefront and builds its case for separation from Britain on that truth, making it foundational to the argument, is a good place to start and quite likely the reason it's stood the test of time so well.

40 posted on 05/28/2016 9:09:32 AM PDT by Edward.Fish
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