McMahonnequin

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Correct. Saw how fast that shite ended? Nobody’s sister or cousin or Aun-Tee jumped in. Wasn’t 132 people fighting. And nobody got shot. Just 1 ruhtard

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Lol there's like 25 people on the court that came from the stands

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McTrahons

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We have officially McJumped the McShark

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The EC was 100% derived to settle disputes among Christians, I genuinely don't think intellectually honest people can dispute it. Personally, and I don't think this is some fringe position, I think the use of "religion" instead of Christianity or Protestantism was to downplay the potential for more disputes among those Christian sects who may or may not agree that all of those denominations were Christian/Protestant, etc. But I'm open to other ideas - that the founders wanted an elastic EC that could conceivably encompass no religion, other religions, etc. But it's just not realistic (and there isn't much historical support) for any idea that the adopters had Islam or ardent secularism in mind. I call it sort of a luxury of aspiration - ie, it's easy to be broad in language when your entire worldview is Christianity and you really can't fathom life where it's not the universal, default position.

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I agree that the founders likely exclusively contemplated forms of Christianity in their discussion of "religion." My main issue is determining that context, when that is context is centuries old and relatively unrecorded. We can attempt to surmise what they thought or meant but the truth is we don't really know, and have no definitive way of knowing what that intent was. Hence I tend to align more with a textualist interpretation.

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But, the EC says "religion." And even if the founders never conceived of it really being applied outside of the faith, "it is what it is." So how it operates today and should be interpreted given that we're no longer a homogenous group of at minimum, cultural Christians, is a different social/cultural/legal discussion entirely.

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Agreed. I don't think the founders could have ever imagined where we are today, which is my other main issue with contextualism.

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I tend to believe the country's Christian founding can and should be visible throughout all elements of American culture - including government/schools - without violating the EC. But that's a much more entailed discussion. That would probably extend to Bible study in Texas, but I can't say I'm particularly invested in the outcome of this.

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I disagree, but understand your reasoning.

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Pettifogger

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Do you guys hear yourselves? If Plano becomes majority Muslim and controls the school board, do you really think they're going to shy away from variants of this because Christians didn't do it when we had the chance?

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It's not about whether they will or won't do it, it's about setting a precedent that allows them that option. We have this thing called a Constitution.

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The Committee left them out with 2 losses last year because of their weak schedule and not winning a conference.

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The Committee left ND out because the last spot was between two teams that played each other and ND lost. There is no doubt in my mind that the Committee would have put ND in over Miami if they never played each other.

When I used to coach my son's team many moons ago, I would play all kids relatively equally for the first three quarters. If it got to the 4th and the game was in reach, the best 5 played.

He'll come back against Missouri, tweak it, and then he'll sit out the rest of the year and transfer

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Oh look a woke moron is triggered

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The only one triggered is you lol

The talent was always there. People doubted him because he's got sugar in the tank