PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Sharon Brown on Religious Freedom in Schools and Civic Engagement
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3 min
Sharon Brown testified about the importance of incorporating religious freedom and practices in schools as part of civic engagement. She argued that the removal of prayer and religious elements from schools has led to increased problems such as violence and inappropriate content.
- Brown emphasized the need for prayer, Bible study, and religious displays in schools
- She connected the absence of religious practices in schools to issues like school shootings and the presence of "pornographic materials"
- Brown advocated for people to engage civically by standing up for freedom of religion in educational settings
Sharon Brown
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Hello.
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My name is Sharon Brown.
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Okay.
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For higher education civic engagement, I believe that the schools and the city council, city hall, should incorporate freedom of religion as far as people defending the freedom of religion in school because this will help out the problems that they're having in school, the shootings, the different atmosphere that's going on.
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The reason why we have those things is because no one did their civic engagement concerning when prayer was taken out of school.
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We need it back in.
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We need the praise and worship bible.
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We need the chorus.
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As those things came out of school, you started to see more problems.
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You started to see more crime.
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You started to see more shootings over the years.
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So when I was in school, I registered people to vote, and I also was trying to get them to make sure they didn't remove prayer.
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I had seen in the 93 that we were headed towards major problems in school if they took out the religious portion, the freedom of religion.
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No one did their civic engagement to fight for freedom of religion.
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And this is why we're dealing with what we're dealing with now.
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So when in 93, when I was trying to get people to put prayer back in, the Bible back in, the 10 commandments, everything, Jewish Christian Christian Christmas Carol's major scenes.
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Even here, we should have major scenes bible on-site during the holidays and things because those civic engagements are lacking.
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We are experiencing shootings and things.
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They have drag shows in school.
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This is direct conflict with all the things that I've just listed.
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If we had those things in there, we wouldn't have pornographic books and materials in school.
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We wouldn't have school shootings.
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We wouldn't have the major problems that we're having.
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So we need people to stand up for freedom of religion.
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This is something that people don't know that it's really connected to your civil rights, your civic engagement, but we your the law basically comes from the bible the 10 commandments, Louisiana, I believe, or 2 states have decided they're going to put the 10 commandments in school.
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I had the argument that the 10 commandments is based on the Bible.
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So if we take the Bible out of school, we're essentially taking out law and order, and then we get school shootings, pornographic materials.
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We get all kinds of things that the Bible pro prohibits.
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So if you see the bible prohibits it, it happens when you take the bible out of school.
Eric Dinowitz
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Thank you so much for your testimony.