Gov. Katie Hobbs saves schools from going to hell by banning Ten Commandments

It was laughable from the start that Republican Sen. Anthony Kern would propose a bill to allow teachers to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms.

Kern was among Arizona’s fake electors in the last presidential election — a wayward collective of GOP operatives being investigated by the Attorney General’s office — who boldly broke Commandment No. 9, the one about bearing false witness.

He was at the U.S. Capitol at the time of the insurrection as well, and is a devout sycophant of former President Donald Trump (a Commandment No. 1 infraction).

Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed Kern’s bill, calling its constitutionality into question. She kindly did not question its common sense or its hypocrisy.

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Kern, on the other hand, said that Hobbs was “abandoning God.”

He said, “Sadly, Katie Hobbs’ veto is a prime example of Democrats’ efforts to push state-sponsored atheism while robbing Arizona’s children of the opportunity to flourish with a healthy moral compass.”

I’m not sure that a person is qualified to talk about “a healthy moral compass” when he tried to overturn an election.

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Or when he worships at the altar of a man who has been accused of sexual misconduct by at least 26 women, lost a huge sexual abuse and defamation case to E. Jean Carroll, cheated on his first wife (and possibly the other two) and is now on trial in a case involving hush money paid to porn star over a sexual liaison.

Is there a commandment that such a list of infractions doesn’t violate?

Churches and families teach religion, not the state

Kern said Hobbs’ veto is “prime example of Democrats’ efforts to push state-sponsored atheism.”

Actually — and I believe Kern might actually know this — what Hobbs did was to prevent Arizona from pushing any form of state-sponsored religion.

Spiritual and religious instruction is what families and churches are for, not the state.

Keeping Arizona out of the religious indoctrination business, as Hobbs did with the veto, was actually the very best way of keeping our schools from going to hell.

Reach Montini at ed.montini@arizonarepublic.com.

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