This vote should serve as a reality check for South Dakota lawmakers who want to use public schools to religiously indoctrinate students. Public schools are not Sunday schools.

America is not a theocracy and South Dakota’s public schools shouldn’t be used to religiously indoctrinate or convert students. Senate Bill 51 is unconstitutional and an affront to the American ideals of religious liberty.

Freedom of religion is one of our most fundamental rights as Americans, but that freedom does not give any of us the right to harm others.

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