Dear Editor: With Louisiana now mandating the Ten Commandments be on display in public schools and Oklahoma taking that a step further by adding the Bible to its public school American history curriculum, we as a nation are on a new slippery slope. One, where our constitutional right as Americans to a separation of church and state is one step closer to disappearing, and one where our nation is a step closer to becoming a Christian nationalist theocracy.

The state legislators who passed those mandates do not care about other American religions, where the Bible and Ten Commandments are not cornerstones of the faith, nor do they care about all the people who would choose not to be party to forced religion.

But I do think we all know what those legislators' true reactions would be if the shoe was on the other foot and they were subjugated by a non-Christian religion.

So perhaps what we really should have as required teaching and on any public display is the Golden Rule. You know, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." And those very state legislative houses would be the perfect place to start.

Bill Walters

Fitchburg

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