ALABAMA
No shame. Just the agenda in writing.
Representative Susan DuBose isn’t hiding the goal.
She thanked LifeWise Academy for its “nationwide work to bring bible education to public schools.”
She celebrated a law that says schools shall allow released-time religious instruction.
She said she “can’t wait” for this program to spread to every school system in Alabama.
And then she had the audacity to accuse us — Secular Education Association — of attacking “constitutional rights” because we objected.
Absolutely not.
Even First Liberty, the legal group representing LifeWise, has testified that released-time religious instruction is not a constitutional right.
Students already have religious rights in public schools.
This is not about a child praying at lunch.
This is not about a student reading a Bible.
This is not about equal access for religious clubs.
This is about politicians using state power to help a private religious program wedge itself into the public school day.
And let’s talk about “choice.”
Your choice does not require my child’s school day to be rearranged.
Your choice does not require public school staff to track attendance, manage schedules, excuse missed class time, or separate children during the school day.
Your choice does not override other families’ right to a public school that does not privilege one religion over others.
That is where “parental rights” rhetoric breaks down.
When one group’s “choice” becomes a government-backed disruption inside a public school, it is no longer just private choice.
It is public policy.
Call it “choice” all you want.
When the law says schools shall allow it, that is not local control.
When lawmakers celebrate one religious program spreading to every school system, that is not neutrality.
And when public schools are used to help that program expand, that is not religious freedom.
That is political power being used to privilege one religious movement inside public education.
Religious freedom requires neutral schools.
What people are saying:
- Secular Education Association: Alabama parents, educators, and reporters should be asking why a state lawmaker is publicly celebrating one private religious program’s expansion into every public school system.
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Facebook User - Facebook User: Imposing fundamentalism on others is not a constitutional right.
- Facebook User: The legislators who promote this tend to be Christian nationalists, a bit bigoted, anti-catholic, and vicious. They get local people who are well meaning, but are duped into pushing their agenda in Jesus name. Hypocrisy at it’s worst.
- Facebook User: When the Satanists Sue for equal access to, this mess will disappear.
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